The Obligatory Blog: Micro ISV Digest

Wow, that was a busy week. Here's my jam-packed round up of the best Micro ISV related news and links.

Product news and announcements

BugNinja reviewed ByteRun's PHP Protector, which I'm sure will be of great interest to anyone building PHP applications for resale or redistribution. BugNinja also linked us to a free PHP PDF generator.
Gurock software released a new version of SmartInspect.
Incenteus are looking for beta testers for their NTest .Net unit testing system.
Dave is looking for beta testers for Bright Car, his software to help you keep track of your car's maintenance scheduling.
Ian found a new ISV blog, it's not clear what pluralvision is all about, but let's wish Kyle luck all the same.
I found a couple of new services based around annotating the web. Wizlite works like a highlighter, so you can highlight sections of web pages. MyStickies is post-it notes for the web.
Microsoft are doing a Micro ISV Show. Here's what the JoS crowd thought.

Relevant links and blog posts

Paul Graham's How to do what you love?
Bob Walsh had a disappointing experience with Movable type and Yahoo, he's looking for a new platform. The review of his book on A Shareware Life came in a little late for last weeks round up.
Sticking with A Shareware Life, Bob might also like Exploding Traffic, where Thomas shared his experiences since moving from Blogger to Typepad. This week he also wrote about a shareware game developer featured in the wall street journal, and continued his series on small software companies.
BugNinja again, the first part of his stop, analyze, correct and proceed series made for a great read. As did his post on innovation and piggy backing.
The myth of the great idea on Pico Business.
Micro ISV posted a follow up interview with a Micro ISVer who went to work for microsoft instead.
From gapingvoid, the two immutable laws of blogging, and 10 reasons why no-one is reading your blog. They also led me to Why it's impossible to start a new blog in 2006.
Via Codesnipers this week, Ben Bryant's IT Death March tells of the slow death of a large IT development project, KC blogged about flavor of the month syndrome, and I started a Micro ISV blogging series.
Joe Indie asks, why doesn't everyone go indie?
I've been following Casual Game Blogs, an aggregation service in the style of Planet Micro ISV, but with blogs from game developers. We share a lot of ground.
This first part of IBM's AJAX tutorial turned up a couple of months ago, here's the second.
Guy Kawasaki keeps raising the bar: his Venture Capital wishlist and Art of Branding are just two of his highlights from this week.

Anything else?

A list of the highest paying Adsense terms from CyberWire.
Take a tour of Google HQ in this ABC news video. If that doesn't satisfy you, there's also a recent BBC program about Google available to watch online.