Micro ISV Digest

The best Micro ISV news, links and articles from the last week.

News and Announcements

• A new DbDesc product, DTSDoc is a tool to document DTS Packages.
• Bitsdujour.com is a woot style "deal a day" site for windows software. See this BoS feedback link if you're interested in promoting your software there.
• 37signals announced a Basecamp API... there has to be some Micro ISV potential in that.
• Ian found a cool tool for Live Page Rank checking.
• Ruby on Rails 1.1 was released. Mike Clark looks at some useful but often forgotten features.
• A TurboGears Update: 0.9a2.
• Stephane Grenier released a new version of LandlordMax.

Relevant Blog posts and Articles

• After last week's coverage of the right and wrong times to start a company, Blue Flavor says "Anytime is the Right Time to Start a Company".
• On MyMicroISV this week: Of Partners Partnerships and Panjandrums, Part 1 & Part 2.
• Guy Kawasaki on Driving your competition crazy, and on staying sane.
• Blake Schwendiman compared the Digg and Reddit effects, Dennis Forbes talked about the traffic implications, and Dennis Gurock explained why J's vim cheat sheet was such a great idea.
• How to Get Traffic, from Gameproducer.
• Ian Jones on being a Perfectionist.
• Dharmesh of OnStartups on the True Value of a Customer.
• Mike Gunderloy on Mashups, get started with this Google Maps Tutorial.
• Don Dodge, Got to have or Nice to Have?
• 10 ideas for Amazon S3 applications, thanks Bob.
• Seth Godin on Real Creativity, and licensing a good idea.
• Things I wish I knew when starting a blog, from Digital Digressions.

Anything Else?

• The top 100 April Fool's Day hoaxes of all time.
• Some shocking before and after photo retouching.
• Too many bumper stickers.

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