Micro ISV Digest

A roundup of the Micro ISV news and relevant blog posts that caught my eye this week.

Product News and Announcements

• FireFox 1.5 was released.
• Ian launched a quick, opportunistic new Micro ISV, Notify360.com, an Xbox 360 availability notification service.

Blog Posts and Articles

• Over on Search Engine Guide, Jennifer Laycock is doing and blogging a great experiment on running an online business, 30 Days to profit.
• Kathy came back: A new post on Creating Passionate Users about modeling and planning product differentiation using graphic equalizer style sliders. I can't believe her sliders didn't go up to eleven, too easy?
• A series of Success and Motivation articles from Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, but also a tech entrepreneur.
• Ian Landsman on Help is for Experts, I'd never really thought about it that way, but it certainly seems true.
• Creating a Games Company from Download Squad, contains a lot of links to free or affordable tools for software development and graphics.
• Mike Morris posted his Tradeshow toolbox advice, great stuff.
• Dennis Forbes on incestuous blogs about blogs in Blogs will eat themselves... oops.

The Lists

Forget Cyber Monday, last week should have been the unofficial week of the list. I was finding lists everywhere I turned, even my fellow Codesniper Rusty got in on the act. Here are some of my favorites.

• What Not to Do by John Osher. 22 great tips for startups.
• 10 Questions to ask yourself when you're small from Life Beyond Code.
• 10 Rules for web startups from Evan Williams.
• If you're considering Ajaxamafing anything, 10 places to use Ajax might be a useful read, as might Ajax gotchas.

Anything Else

Only Pandora, music on tap, just tell it the name of a song or a band you like and it generates a custom channel to play similar music. Easily the coolest site I've found in a long time.

Sources (aside from the sites already linked): MicroISV, Seth Godin's Blog, Work Happy, Nick Hebb.