The Obligatory Blog: Micro ISV Digest

New Year wishes, resolutions and plans were plentiful in blog posts this week, and it brought some great advice for Micro ISVs.

Product News and Announcements

An update to Turbo Gears.
A new version of Surfulator has some interesting looking features for building up composite articles.
Splashpool is a solution based search engine for business software. It's an interesting concept, but I think it needs to be clearer on the site how solution providers can participate.

Blogging on the New Year

Joe Indie's Simple Plan for 2006.
BugNinja had a busy new year period, but this year will be different.
Thomas of A Shareware Life is planning a massive overhaul this year, Reboot 2006. 1o years down, congratulations!
Ian M Jones wants to get to grips with the structure of his days.
Ben at BRK Studio also wants to get his schedule under control, What I'd like from 2006.
I also wrote about what I'd like from 2006 on Codesnipers.

It sounds like if we all had our way, there wouldn't be many email replies going out in the mornings in 2006. No doubt reality will interfere with all of our plans.

Relevant Blog Posts and Links

10 steps to a hugely successful web 2.0 company: Great tips for planning and choosing how to get started.
Why I quit entrepreneurship and got a real job: Lessons learned and the reasons for going back to the other side.
7 ways to get to the top of the del.icio.us popular list: A guide from ProBlogger for writing and titling popular topics for your blog posts.
A guide to increasing sales in the 37signals blog small business 101 series.
One of the longest blog posts I've ever seen, A Crash Course in Learning Theory, from Creating Passionate Users.
Buzz monitoring tools: Bob Walsh linked to IceSpy, one of those time-suckers that lets you sit and watch what other people are searching for. LiveMarks is a similar service for watching what's being bookmarked on del.icio.us. The Google news tag cloud on Newzingo might also be helpful.
I found this massive collection of search engine optimization tools.
Boris Yankov blogs last years profits and his progress towards a full time Micro ISV.