Comments on: RSS in Hong Kong http://www.852signal.com/2007/02/09/rss-in-hong-kong/ Broadcasting Web 2.0 and next generation web activities in Hong Kong and Asia 香港 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:45:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: angus http://www.852signal.com/2007/02/09/rss-in-hong-kong/#comment-2108 Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:36:51 +0000 http://www.852signal.com/2007/02/09/rss-in-hong-kong/#comment-2108 Great point and yes, I do agree that companies here don't really want to lose out on the revenue coming from their ads and money speaks louder than anything here. I guess the businesses here aren't much of risk takers ;) Great point and yes, I do agree that companies here don’t really want to lose out on the revenue coming from their ads and money speaks louder than anything here. I guess the businesses here aren’t much of risk takers ;)

]]> by: k http://www.852signal.com/2007/02/09/rss-in-hong-kong/#comment-2069 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:39:28 +0000 http://www.852signal.com/2007/02/09/rss-in-hong-kong/#comment-2069 y! hk does have rss feeds for most of its news sites, for example: feed://hk.news.yahoo.com/rss/news_bu_general_all.xml feed://hk.news.yahoo.com/rss/news_sp_general_all.xml many public sites also have had css for more than a while now, like news.gov.hk. Fact is, some sites owners refrain from rss feeds because of the fear of dropped page views and revenues thru ad click-thrus. Others like atnext.com also wouldn't offer rss feeds as they don't want to loose their overseas subscribers....there're many complicated commercial issues behind, and people just aren't prepared to take risks. This is a mindset/business model problem rather than a technical one. By the way, cool site. Keep it up, cheers. y! hk does have rss feeds for most of its news sites, for example:

feed://hk.news.yahoo.com/rss/news_bu_general_all.xml
feed://hk.news.yahoo.com/rss/news_sp_general_all.xml

many public sites also have had css for more than a while now, like news.gov.hk.

Fact is, some sites owners refrain from rss feeds because of the fear of dropped page views and revenues thru ad click-thrus. Others like atnext.com also wouldn’t offer rss feeds as they don’t want to loose their overseas subscribers….there’re many complicated commercial issues behind, and people just aren’t prepared to take risks. This is a mindset/business model problem rather than a technical one.

By the way, cool site. Keep it up, cheers.

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