A VC - Latest Comments in Cleaning House

Re: Cleaning House

house cleaning atlanta — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:33:29 -0000

Your sight is slowwwwww on my iphone so good choice in cutting the fat.

Re: Cleaning House

rosa holten — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:44:35 -0000

plaese help me with my house . i would like some help . i fell bad when my childeren tell me they would like a better house . but i really dont know were to start . and dont have the money too do plaese help me.

Re: Cleaning House

cleaning — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:51:10 -0000

Hi I agree with less is a lot more appealing and not so fussy!
Lucy x

Re: Cleaning House

fredwilson — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:27:03 -0000

That's explains a lot. Thanks

Fred

Re: Cleaning House

Nate — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:21:33 -0000

Fred, I tried to send an article from avcblog.com to someone, but it just linked to the avcblog.com root. On closer inspection, avcblog.com is FRAMING your entire site at avc.blogs.com and diluting your search mojo. If you didn't set up and don't own avcblog.com (it's registered at Godaddy not 6A), then you should contact Google and request that avcblog.com be delisted.

The whois info for avcblog.com is here: http://www.whois.net/whois_...

Re: Cleaning House

ceonyc — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:01:27 -0000

MyBlogLog should stay... I like seeing who else has been here, familar faces, etc.

Re: Cleaning House

Richard — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:25:07 -0000

Two thumbs up on the decision.

One feature that would be useful to have on your rails is a "Top Posts" list like you see on Marc Andreessen's blog. I'm a relatively new reader to your blog, and while I can browse through your archives, it's tough for me to know which of your past posts are your classic posts that contain your most important original insights (e.g. A New Path to Liquidity).

Re: Cleaning House

howardlindzon — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:46:42 -0000

i think it qould be cool to hide your posts IN the widgets for a time.

I am therefore for MORE widgets so its not so easy to find your posts.

screw your readers

Re: Cleaning House

Jim McGee — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:09:35 -0000

As someone who reads your blog via RSS, I've essentially already self-selected against viewing widgets. I choose not to be aware of them and they don't bother me

Re: Cleaning House

Sundarlal — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:06:55 -0000

Widgets and ads dilute your message. Good decision

Re: Cleaning House

fredwilson — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:59:48 -0000

i didn't set up avcblog.com so it may belong to 6A too

my domain issue is a serious problem that i don't want to tackle right now

but i appreciate your suggestions

fred

Re: Cleaning House

vincentvw — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:49:09 -0000

Apart from content and the rss-feed, none that I really use.

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Nikpay — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:54:42 -0000

I never notice to any of them. They have not been distracting either as long as nothing is flashy. I think the best of them is MyBlogLog.

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Nate — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:46:48 -0000

Get rid of everything on the sidebars for a few days to see what you miss. I'd remove all flash or animated widgets/ads. What you can do instead is use RSS widgets to pull in your Tweets and whatever else you want. I use Yahoo Pipes to combine Google Reader shared items and del.icio.us items in my sidebar. This will help you limit the number of HTTP requests (fewer images and flash embeds) and speed up page rendering.

I'm not sure how typepad hosted blogs work, but try to find a new theme with a print stylesheet. Your readers will love you.

Also, you may be getting a Google SEO penalty because avc.blogs.com and avcblog.com resolve to the same content. Pick a URL (preferably avcblog.com because blogs.com belongs to 6Apart) and redirect traffic from the other domain to it. I'd also auto-redirect www from your domain. You want to keep your URLs canonical.

Looking forward to a lean and mean AVC!

Re: Cleaning House

candice — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:08:33 -0000

you should follow some of the nolabloggers too if you're curious. the boyfriend and I are not going until next weekend, though... @yatpundit, @wetbankguy were there today in the rain, @liprap, and there are a bunch more.

Re: Cleaning House

Dharmesh Shah — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:49:51 -0000

Forget 6 months, The revolution has been sparked:

Fred Wilson Is Cleaning Up His Blog And You Should Too:

http://onstartups.com/home/...

Re: Cleaning House

zachlandes — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:38:09 -0000

Leave the twitter updater. I am not a fan of the EcoSafe, lijit search tool, feedblitz subscriber, or hype machine. I don't like advertising but that is, of course, your prerogative.

Re: Cleaning House

Dharmesh Shah — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:27:19 -0000

Clean away. As a regular reader, I find most of the stuff distracting. (I understand why you do it -- because it helps you try stuff out, but it gets in the way).

Re: Cleaning House

tweetip — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:20:49 -0000

iiii eeeee phoneeeee - loads everything - as in everything - not that we can see it - but it tries. we've grown to judging when the 'meat' of the site has loaded, and then we abort loading...

M :)

Re: Cleaning House

Shivering Timbers — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:12:58 -0000

Thank you!

I had stopped visiting the site (relying only on the RSS feed--which doesn't have comments) because it took so effing long to load the page.

Now I can read the comments again!

Re: Cleaning House

gregory — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:47:00 -0000

so much for my new widget company... i mean, i knew they were just useless clutter and time-wasters, but i was hoping my customers wouldn't........

Re: Cleaning House

Adnan — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:38:51 -0000

When I use my iPhone on your site its slow but from my pc I enjoy using the Eco print to send PDFs to friends or save on my mac. At least save these types of things because they are functional and help me use/spread your words of wisdom.
-Adnan

Re: Cleaning House

Emil Sotirov — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:58:34 -0000

I like seeing myself and others on the MyBlogLog widget... vanity I guess... :) No, it really works as a "meeting" place where the "regulars" of the blog can see each other.

Re: Cleaning House

bijan — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:40:46 -0000

I'd keep MBL, twitter and flickr. that's what i did on my site.

Re: Cleaning House

Joe Lazarus — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:13:27 -0000

I'd vote for MyBlogLog, a site search box, one music widget, and possibly Flickr. Actually, the music widget could probably be replaced by a static link to another page with your music on it like this...

http://yungsang.com/tumtape...

The widget itself doesn't provide much more for me than just easy access to your tunes. A prominent button might even be better than a widget in that case. Along those lines, maybe you could include a "Me Elsewhere" section with links to your profile on all the other sites that you currently include as widgets (your Etsy profile, Last.fm, Covestor, etc).