During the latter half of the 1990s and into the early part of the new millennium, the concept of an RSS feed was wildly popular. Without delving into the specifics of the software code governing the functionality of an RSS feed, it is essentially a means whereby a user can enjoy ongoing updates to a financial or economic website, newspaper, journal or periodical.
However, there is a great deal of skepticism brewing about the efficacy of a traditional rss feed. For starters, it is a time-consuming process to manually search for those websites which meet your financial or economic requirements. Further, the act of signing up to receive information via an RSS feed requires effort on the part of the user.
The problem becomes more complicated when websites either fail to update, shut down or lose valuable information from their database – through malware, corruption of data files and so forth. The issue becomes even more complicated when user preferences change, and the financial or economic sites no longer satisfy the needs of the audience. In this case it becomes important to unsubscribe from an RSS feed.
With so many RSS feeds to monitor, it becomes all too clear why this is a highly inefficient means of staying up-to-date with financial news. The solution to the RSS feed problem lies in an innovative software program known as Genieo. It thinks on its feet so that you don’t have to.
