Micro ISV Digest

The week's Micro ISV news and my pick of the relevant blog posts.

Product News and Announcements

• Squidoo moved from private to public beta.
• Bill Rayer launched a new beta version of Ubercode
• LookLater continues to develop, with private RSS feeds, tagging, and bookmark import/export among the new or updated features this week.
• Yahoo bought del.icio.us.
• Another Micro ISV went live, Barbary Monitor launched, a tool for monitoring site or network availability.
• Phil of Seartech software launched a blog about his ISV. His first product is for chimney sweeps, and, as I'm sure he's heard quite enough Mary Poppins gags, I'll restrain myself.

Blog posts and Links

• Ian Jones finished his first week working for himself on his Micro ISV, he expected more, but it sounds to me like he'll do just fine.
• Darren Rowse of Problogger knows a thing or two about making money from blogging, here he posts 11 tips for driving traffic to your blog.
• Joe Indie posts on Writing Intuitive Software, it's gaming themed, but relevant.
• Small Business 101 from 37signals, this could definitely be a series to watch.
• Also from 37signals, Don't Scale: 99.999% uptime is for Wal-mart. The pragmatic approach to availability, and something budding Micro ISVs should probably take note of.
• 24ways is an advent calendar of web development tips to impressing your friends, one each day for the rest of the season.
• J from NGEdit posted his experiences of Adwords and click fraud. In J's case the potential impact was a few bucks here and there, web host AIT are leading a class-action suit against Google, claiming they've lost $500,000.

From the Forums

• A great discussion of the benefits of, and best techniques to use for, online demos and tutorials, kicked off by Andy Brice's Wink experiment.
• Ian gave us an update on his Notify360.com experiment.
• Bob Walsh joined Eric Sink as a new host of the Business of Software forum.