Micro ISV Digest

A weekly roundup of Micro ISV news, announcements and relevant blog posts.

News and Announcements

• James Newton-King released Json.Net 1.1.
• Johan Beyers launched the beta version of Abbackup, via BoS.
• Virtual PC is now free, and VMWare Server is 1.0.
• The weblog wire launched.
• 30 under 30 from Inc magazine.
• Benji is still banging out his ideas, but is revising his project spec.
• A Wall Street Software book from Andrey.
• Baby SpoiltChild.

Relevant Blog Posts and Articles

• 59 is the new 65 and other reasons to start your business Now, from Escape from Cubicle Nation. Pam was also the guest on the Lifestyle CEO show last week.
• Phil vs Ian: Don't quit your day job vs. Quit your day job.
• Wil Schroter: Spend more time doing big things.
• Less Choice = Less Suffering: Outsourcing Choice from 37signals.
• Capital Efficiency for growing businesses.
• GigaOm: Startups embracing Amazon's S3.
• Dharmesh: The Entrepreneurs Leap.

Further (mostly relevant) Reading

• Mark Cuban: The internet is old news and boring.
• CopyBlogger, Do Keywords in post titles really matter? and Did you hear the one about the long tail?
• PicoBusiness and Rajesh debate the golden goose parable in one of the stranger blog topics of the week.
• How many startup employees to change a lightbulb, from Dharmesh.
• Ideas for free.

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