Micro ISV Digest

The weeks Micro ISV news, announcements, and relevant blog posts.

News and Announcements

• Incentus released NTest, an automated testing tool for .NET.
• James Newton-King released WebDialog.
• Leroy Clark released his beta for Active Last Logon.
• Roger Jack announced his beta for Fast Formatter.
• Dimitris added a windows installer to Magna CRM.
• Andrey is benefitting from a dedicated site for his Printer friendly product.
• Glenn Rice announced his ThoughtFiler idea.
• Writely was bought by Google, read more about it on MyMicroISV in 20 year web instant success.

Relevant Blog posts and articles

• The story of the $5 Bugtracking offer from Axosoft.
• Ryan Carson, posted the first part of The cost of bootstrapping your app: the figures behind dropsend.
• Micro ISV podcasts from the evening at Adler.
• Shel Israel on the normalization of blogs.
• MarkTAW, why most businesses fail.
• Searching for Success from Blue Flavor.
• Joel Spolsky: Usability in one easy step.
• Oreilly Radar: Entrepreneurial Proverbs.
• Brian at MicroISV: Conception to sales in 7 days, can it be done?
• Other great posts this week on MyMicroISV: Dan Copperstock, On being a one person software development shop and Aaron Aycock, How I made a mashup.
• There were also some great posts from 37signals. First, Everytime you add something you take something away, and on a similar theme, Complexity causes 50% of product returns. Also check out Just ship it.
• John Seiffer's small business blog seems to be a good read.

Anything else?

• Incredible pavement (sidewalk) drawings.

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