Web syndication is a form of syndication in which a segment of a website is made available for usage by other sites, simply by the authorizing the content. Web syndication provides the user with a summary of the website's recently added content, such as the latest announcements.

Web syndication started off with the distribution of content from news sites and blog sites, but is increasingly used to syndicate other types of information, such as the latest blog postings or product promotions.

Web syndication formats are most commonly transported via XML, although HTML and JavaScript are possible media.

Let’s look at RSS.

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a group of web feed formats utilized to publish frequent updated online content, such as podcasts.

Users of RSS content use software programs called "feed readers" or "feed aggregators".

Feed aggregators or feed readers make a collection of web feeds that is accessible in one spot. By providing the program the link to the feed, the user will be able to subscribe to a feed.

The program will then check the user's subscribed feeds for any content that he/she has missed. If there are, it will download the content and present it to the user.

Yahoo! News' RSS feeds include a variety of feeds, ranging from education to healthcare to politics. These are free of charge to use for individuals for non-profit organization and non-commercial use. Yahoo! users can gain an advantage of adding RSS feeds to you're My Yahoo! Page by clicking the "Add to My Yahoo!" button beside each feed.

MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) RSS feeds are provided for many of its developer centers and for other sections of the site such as the MSDN Subscriber Downloads. They syndicate many feeds such as updates of Windows Vista, Microsoft Visual Studios and Internet Explorer 7.0.

Subscribers are notified what new content of the feeds subscribed has been published.

Apple RSS feeds provide the subscriber with feeds that update them on what's hot and what's new in the different sections of the website. The contents of the feeds range from the iTunes store, to benefits of getting a Mac, to downloads of Mac OS X.