Personalized Information Aggregator and Filter: An Application of RSS Technology in the Web

The Internet is a major force to obtain,spread,and exchange information.A tremendous amount of information is available online.Web users are facing a problem of "information overload".The Really Simple Syndicated (RSS) technology works as an information aggregator and filter,which saves us...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: MA, Dan, ZHAO, Yanjie
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2006
Subjects:
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2503
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English
Description
Summary:The Internet is a major force to obtain,spread,and exchange information.A tremendous amount of information is available online.Web users are facing a problem of "information overload".The Really Simple Syndicated (RSS) technology works as an information aggregator and filter,which saves users searching costs as well as costs of downloading online advertisements.This paper conducts a cost-and-benefit analysis for RSS adoption, as also analyzes the RSS profitability for websites.