A little background: Content Syndication, RSS, and Zend Framework

Web Content Syndication has been around for many years, but has recently gained enormous popularity. The term Web Content Syndication refers to publishing information in a standardized format so that it can easily be used by other websites and easily consumed by reader applications. Many news sites have long been electronically syndicating their content, but the massive explosion of web logs (also known as blogs) across the Internet has turned Content Syndication (also known as known as feeds) into an expected feature of almost every website. Our TrackStar application will be no exception.

RSS is an acronym that stands for Really Simple Syndication. It is an XML format specification that provides a standard for Web Content Syndication. There are other formats that could be used, but due to the overwhelming popularity of RSS among most websites, we will focus on delivering our feed in this format.

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