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March, 2005 -- Up-to-the-minute urology news is now available FREE on
the USRF website. This addition is made possible using a technology known
as RSS, “Really Simple
Syndication”. With RSS technology and a Yahoo
utility, news is funneled into the USRF website from all the news
sources that come into Yahoo, after selection for a number of urology-related
key words. Thus, the USRF aggregator receives focused urology news stories
from every conceivable source, and what’s more, the news is updated
on the USRF “Uro-News
Feed” frequently throughout the day!
RSS is used on the USRF website to provide news items containing short
descriptions of web content together with a link to the full version
of the content.  Under
a public usage agreement with Yahoo News, USRF now provides syndicated
headline or headline-and-short-summary feeds. This is made possible
by a program known as a feed reader or aggregator
which automatically checks Yahoo’s RSS-enabled web page and displays
any updated articles that it finds. RSS saves viewers from having to
repeatedly visit favorite websites to check for new content or be notified
of updates via email.
USRF has taken advantage of the RSS concept to give readers updated,
urology-related news on our homepage. With the help of RSS
 Digest,
we are able to relay news feeds directly onto the website, eliminating
the necessity for each viewer to set up an aggregator and the task of
subscribing to an RSS provider. Thus, urology news from hundreds of
sources, updated frequently during the day, is now available without
charge by looking in just one place: the USRF “Uro-News Feed.”
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