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Re: The New AVC, Same As The Old AVC

fredwilson — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:26:08 -0000

This is a screwup

There is no new RSS URL

We just messed up feedburner with a redirect issue

It should be fixed now

Re: The New AVC, Same As The Old AVC

Alex — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:48:31 -0000

You could have announced the new RSS url in old feed! I thought you had not post anything since August 4 :)

Re: The New AVC, Same As The Old AVC

Mark Collier — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:43:15 -0000

The new design looks great, particularly on the iphone. I'm actually reading your blog more often now on the iphone.

This inspired me to find a solution for my wordpress blog to the iphone formatting problem, and I just installed this: http://www.bravenewcode.com...

So far, so good. I'd love to see more solutions like this, and would suggest that Matt & Tony over at Automattic add a similar option for wordpress.com users.

P.S. The new login flow for disqus is MUCH improved.

Re: The New AVC, Same As The Old AVC

simon — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:31:57 -0000

congrats fred

Re: The New AVC, Same As The Old AVC

fredwilson — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:43:04 -0000

Thanks steve. Its good to hear that from a longtime loyal reader

Re: The New AVC, Same As The Old AVC

Stephen McKay — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:19:33 -0000

Fred,

Your new blog format is AWESOME!
Keep the olive green too. Everyone is into "branding", and It's your trademark of sorts!
Love it!

Steve

Re: The New AVC, Same As The Old AVC

Terence Pua — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 07:25:29 -0000

Looks like you made the change. Thanks.

Re: The New AVC, Same As The Old AVC

josh guttman — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:08:26 -0000

i can't speak to typepad, but this was super-easy on wordpress when we moved the Sphere blog from sphere.wordpress.com to sphere.com/blog. For that matter we also mapped blog.sphere.com just to be sure we cracked the code.

Re: The New AVC, Same As The Old AVC

fredwilson — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:34:07 -0000

I am sympathetic to your views on this one ken

Re: The New AVC, Same As The Old AVC

fredwilson — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:29:09 -0000

I am still on typepad and won't even think about moving until I've migrated my google juice from avc.blogs.com to avc.com

Re: The New AVC, Same As The Old AVC

Emil Sotirov — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:25:09 -0000

Late... but happy to join the chorus of congratulations.

And... as I'm of the "undesign" school of design... looking forward to natural degradation and graceful aging to resurface with time.

Re: The New AVC, Same As The Old AVC

kenberger — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:44:31 -0000

I think the domain name thing is different.

If you have a genuine need for a particular domain and don't wind up using it, or your business goes under, that's one thing. But deliberately shoving yourself in front of someone else as a forced gatekeeper for something obvious that you won't personally need seems something else, eg getting pepsi.org, chicagophilharmonic.com, etc

And while I agree that "i was here first" is often a key part of success, it's just lame when it's the only thing you've got. You can argue that in land speculation (assuming the buyer makes no improvements), or in wireless spectrum, it *is* all you got. But since the impact there is to the market at large rather than a particular company or individual, seems like less of a victim situation.

How would you like it if I had nabbed joshguttman.com soley so I could expect you to need to pay me for it? (Happens all the time, especially w/ celebrity names). vintagebikedude.com might be a bit of a different story (inside joke!)

I also feel like it's still lame even if it is more of a generic name (like businesses.com), which does make it less of the personal victim example.

I've always felt that there really should be a meritorious method to allocate domain names. Unfortunately, it would never be realistic to happen, so the market-driven way takes over.

Re: The New AVC, Same As The Old AVC

josh guttman — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:03:57 -0000

Kennyboy - a lot of money has been made by employing the "i was here first" strategy, not just with domain names but in countless other businesses. I don't see any inherent problem with that. Do you feel the same way about guys who bought up wireless spectrum early or got the rights to build the first casino in Macau?

Re: The New AVC, Same As The Old AVC

josh guttman — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:01:22 -0000

Fred - love the new design...long overdue!! What publishing platform are you using now? Not to insult any of my friends at SixApart, but I've moved all my stuff over to Wordpress and have never looked back:)

Re: The New AVC, Same As The Old AVC

josh guttman — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:56:17 -0000

Re: The New AVC, Same As The Old AVC

grifranks — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:38:37 -0000

i like the images here

Re: The New AVC, Same As The Old AVC

fredwilson — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:34:09 -0000

We'll consider this request.

Thanks

Fred

Re: The New AVC, Same As The Old AVC

fredwilson — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:11:08 -0000

I'll see about that

Re: The New AVC, Same As The Old AVC

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Re: The New AVC, Same As The Old AVC

fredwilson — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:09:05 -0000

Not close. It was a bargain because nathan is really talented

Re: The New AVC, Same As The Old AVC

fredwilson — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:45:08 -0000

That picture was on the top left in the old design and we debated whether to keep it or put it on the about page

My wife, as usual, made the final call and it was the right one

Re: The New AVC, Same As The Old AVC

DonRyan — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:28:20 -0000

Very nice look and page load. Great job.

Re: The New AVC, Same As The Old AVC

David Cancel — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:03:43 -0000

Looks absolutely fabulous. Congrats.

PS. The great picture of you with your family shows that your priorities are properly aligned.

Cheers,
;dc

Re: The New AVC, Same As The Old AVC

iankennedy — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:43:56 -0000

Congrats on the redesign and glad MyBlogLog made the cut!

Re: The New AVC, Same As The Old AVC

ginevra — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:22:58 -0000

Hi Nathan:

I saw a bit about your frustration with TypePad - I'd be happy to talk with you about these issues and more, and if I don't know the answer, I'll get you on with the folks who do. you can also reach me at ginevra AT sixapart DOT com, and we can talk about how best to address the feature requests/redirects.