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Well you can't be looking very hard... Put RSS into google and you get no less than 30 reasonable decent explanations...
However, since you asked, RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication.
Basically it's a way of website owners to share content on a regular basis.
Think of RSS Feeds like Channels on the Radio. Adding an RSS Feed to your website would allow you to deliver the content of that channel to your viewers as if it was part of your own website.
RSS Feeds are most commonly comprised of blog posts and news articles on any variety of topics. So, for example, if you had a gaming website, you may want to subscribe to a Gaming News RSS Feed and have the contents displayed in your 'News' Section on your website.
You can also deliver content to other sites via your own RSS Feed. It is also possible for people to view the contents of RSS Feeds using an RSS Reader. RSS Readers allow you to view the content of an RSS feed without the need for a web browser.
RSS Feeds are usually in XML format making it easy to integrate into your website using any number of simple tools. The focus is generally on content and not on formatting, meaning you can alter the feed to appear as an integral part of your website.
Does that help?
Mike.
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