Use of the feeds or channels: how to remain more efficiently up-to-date

Abstract

In the World Wide Web, information is usually accessed directly visiting websites, without previously knowing if there are new contents available. In this article we describe another way of accessing to information based on content syndication through web feeds, and on the use of aggregators to retrieve it. Most common aggregators are explained, both desktop software and web-based services. Web feeds related to Pediatrics, including news, scientific journals, and bibliographic databases search systems like Pub-Med. This technology, although still incipient, may already be useful, and it probably will have much more applications over the next years.