The Obligatory Blog: Micro ISV Digest

My pick of the weeks Micro ISV news, announcements and articles.

News and Announcements

Review Often, a web based peer review service are looking for beta testers.
Ian Ozsvald is blogging about bootstrapping ShowMeDo, a new portal for demonstration videos.
Aytekin launched JotForm, a web based AJAX form builder.
Andrey Butov launched Printer Friendly, a cool new product to automatically produce printer friendly versions of web pages.
End of the line for Haja. Best of luck with whatever you do next Mike.
37signals launched Campfire, a chat solution aimed at business collaboration.
Yahoo launched an open source UI library and a blog to go with it.

Relevant Articles and Blog Posts

A free IT sales manual. It's aimed at selling enterprise software, but it's free, and there must be something in there for us MicroISV'ers.
Writing tips for non writers who don't want to work at writing. Great title!
Glenn Rice is comparing Helpdesk software from a Micro ISV perspective.
Matt Breckon's write up of the JoS London meet. Also from Matt, a convenient reproduction of Big Picture Guy's rules for life.
From A Shareware Life, the story of a modestly successful game. It's a great case study of the life of a simple software product.
Ian Landsman on piracy and source code protection for web apps.
Jose's visit to Kinko's helped me understand what his Procx software is for.
Ben from BRK on starting up on the cheap.
Dennis Forbes: 5 Tips for enjoying the software development profession.
Feel free to take game producer out of 21 differences between good and bad game producers and replace it with something more Micro ISV. Either way, it feels relevant.
From Reddit, How to feed a startup. It probably wasn't the desired effect, but this just reminded me that I miss Krispy Kreme.
Software development's evolution towards product design.
37signals' product design 101: It doesn't matter.
A very thorough guide to Web Analytics options from Conversion Rater.