Micro ISV Digest

A round up of Micro ISV news and articles from the past week.

News and Announcements

• Fogcreek released version 5.0 of FogBugz.
• Google released a new version of the Adwords API.
• A new version of DTSDoc.
• Congratulations to LibraryThing on their deal with AbeBooks.
• A new USA tech entrepreneurs portal from IEEE.
• Another one bites the dust, Matt Breckon on aborting PageTrack.

Relevant Blog posts and Articles

• The top ten lies of partners from Guy Kawasaki.
• Matt Inglot on the top 5 points a Venture Capitalist wants to hear.
• 7 Risks in Indie Games Production from GameProducer.
• A new Micro ISV Show, with Buzz Bruggeman.
• The Myth Reality and Future of Web 2.0 from Gigaom.
• Digg is your marketing secret weapon from the Small Biz 101 series.
• Meanwhile, Dharmesh at OnStartups is more interested in traffic quality and manageability. Also from Dharmesh: Usability vs. Buyability.
• Outspend vs Out Inspire the competition on Creating Passionate Users.
• Paul Graham on How American are Startups?
• Seth Godin: Is it CB Radio?

Anything Else?

• An Adwords tool and a new thread about Marketing methods on the BoS forums.
• If tech companies made Sudoku.
• Are you procrastinating or are you just thinking?
• The Dalai Lama, marketer from Seth Godin's Blog.

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