Feed refer, rss feed, rss channels, hot feed

Feed may refer to:

* As a verb, to feed means to give food to, or to eat food.
* Feed as a noun often refers to animal feed, food given to or meant for livestock (see also "fodder")

Inserting one thing into another:

* Card feed
* Paper feed

Telecommunications

(Information from Federal Standard 1037C and MIL-STD-188)

* To supply a signal to the input of a system, subsystem, equipment, or electronic component, such as a transmission line or antenna
* A coupling device between an antenna and its transmission line that may consist of a distribution network or a primary radiator
* A transmission facility between (a) the point of origin of a signal, such as is generated in a radio or television studio, and (b) the head-end of a distribution facility, such as an individual station in a broadcasting network
* Data feed
o Bulk data feed
o Data Feed Optimization
o Delayed data feed (lag)
* Feed horn
* Horn (telecommunications)

Computing

* Line feed
* Web feed, the RSS or Atom feeds used by news aggregators
o feed: URI scheme, a mechanism to access web feeds

Popular culture

* Feed, a postcyberpunk, dystopian novel written by M. T. Anderson in 2002
* Feed, an e-zine, also known as feedmag.com
* The Feed, a segment on the American TV series Attack of the Show!
* Feed, a 2005 film directed by Brett Leonard

Other

* In metalworking, feed describes the rate at which a tool advances into the workpiece. The term speeds and feeds combines two important conditions that affect cutting tool life and metal removal rates.

FEED may refer to:

* FEED (Foundation for European Economic Development)
* FEED (Front End Engineering Design)

Data feed is a mechanism for data users to receive updated data from data sources. It is commonly used by real-time applications in point-to-point settings as well as on the world-wide web. The latter is also called web feed. News feed is a popular form of web feed. RSS feed makes dissemination of blogs easy. Product feeds play increasingly important role in e-commerce and internet marketing. Data feed usually requires structured data. But, at the present time unstructured data, e.g. a web html page, dominate the web. As a result, data feed has huge potential to make bigger impact on the web going forward.

The name Atom applies to a pair of related standards. The Atom Syndication Format is an XML language used for web feeds, while the Atom Publishing Protocol (referred to as 'AtomPub' for short) is a simple HTTP-based protocol for creating and updating Web resources.

Web feeds allow software programs to check for updates published on a web site. To provide a web feed, a site owner may use specialized software (such as a content management system) that publishes a list (or "feed") of recent articles or content in a standardized, machine-readable format. The feed can then be downloaded by web sites that syndicate content from the feed, or by feed reader programs that allow Internet users to subscribe to feeds and view their content.

A feed contains entries, which may be headlines, full-text articles, excerpts, summaries, and/or links to content on a web site, along with various metadata.

The development of Atom was motivated by the existence of many incompatible versions of the RSS syndication format, all of which had shortcomings, and the poor interoperability of XML-RPC-based publishing protocols. The Atom syndication format was published as an IETF "proposed standard" in RFC 4287, and the Atom Publishing Protocol was published as RFC 5023.

The primary objective of all RSS modules is to extend the basic XML schema established for more robust syndication of content. This inherently allows for more diverse, yet standardized, transactions without modifying the core RSS specification.

To accomplish this extension, a tightly controlled vocabulary (in the RSS world, "module"; in the XML world, "schema") is declared through an XML namespace to give names to concepts and relationships between those concepts.

Some RSS 2.0 modules with established namespaces:

* Ecommerce RSS 2.0 Module
* Media RSS 2.0 Module
* OpenSearch RSS 2.0 Module