Micro ISV Digest

This weeks Micro ISV launches and updates, with a few relevant blog posts thrown in.

Product News and Announcements

• Ruby on Rails went 1.0.
• Art Affair is software for the business side of art. Looks like an interesting niche product, and it was discussed at length on the Jos Forum last week.
• LookLater hit 100,000 bookmarks, and Doug announced a new product, Gozenta, which is a live web site statistics service. I'm really looking forward to seeing this one come together, if his productivity on LookLater is anything to go by, it could quickly become an exciting and useful product.
• Helpspot hit $10,000 in sales after about six weeks on the market.
• Neville Franks released a new version of Surfulator, with some cool looking new features.
• BugNinja took a look at the latest Yahoo Mail beta, and like what he saw.

Other Blog Posts and Links

• FAMFAMFAM Icons, a free Icon set, suitable for use in commercial projects. I've looked for something like this for a long time, thanks WorkHappy.
• Bob Walsh wrote about lessons learned writing a book.
• The second part of the small business 101 series on the 37signals blog dealt with Cash Flow. Not quite as good as the first part, but worth a look just to see NumSum in action, if you haven't already.
• Seven Lessons learned in year one from Strangebrand.
• KC launched the Anonymous blog at Codesnipers, open to anyone out there who wants to get something off their chest, or who wants to ask a question of the Codesnipers community.
• Dennis Forbes on Adoption, Functionality and Usability. I often set the time on my VCR, always have, I wonder if that makes me special.
• PC or not-PC, should you wish your customers a merry christmas?
• An abrupt but fun question and answer session from A Shareware Life.
• Typepad went AWOL.