Micro ISV Digest

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

News and Announcements

• Phil Steinmeyer is looking for beta testers for his next casual game.
• Alan at SpoiltChild is looking for beta testers for Toddle.
• Jonas Martinsson is building a newspaper style feed aggregator called FeedJournal. Take a look at a sample on his blog.
• A new site for Rapid Signal.
• Digg Labs launched.
• The WeblogWire launched version 1.1. Via their feed: a site called Yoosi.com will be sold by auction on eBay.
• A new MicroISV Show on Channel9, Craig Krantz talks about Project Glidepath.
• Benji zipped through the last 9 ideas and started trying to choose a winner.
• Andrey Butov released the source code and a post mortem for his first product, Chinchilla.

Relevant Blog Posts and Articles

• 17 pithy insights for startup founders from Dharmesh.
• Top 10 Rocketboom business notions.
• The 10 dumbest online business ideas that made it big time.
• Ignore the Competition from Creating Passionate Users. BoS followup discussion.
• More thoughts about competition from Slow Leadership.
• Patrick has some 10 minute tips to boost your conversion.
• Bob Walsh on Codesnipers, Why Open Source <> Micro ISV. And on BoS, a discussion of open source business models.
• The many hats of small business owners from Matt Inglot.
• DuctTapeMarketing: How viral is your referral marketing?
• The Long Tail: Dissed in WSJ, Defended by Chris Anderson, WSJ writer responds... all tied together courtesy of gapingvoid.

Further (mostly relevant) Reading

• Short but sweet, Seth Godin on Belief. Slightly longer: Intuition vs Analysis.
• Dave Cheong: Are you a happy employee? and Matt Inglot: Is it wrong to be an Employee?
• An Amazing Customer Service Request, from Follow Steph.
• Scobleizer on the GYMAe developer wars.
• CopyBlogger explains why some people almost always write great post titles. Also, SEO Secrets revealed.
• Dude, Kyle's not here made me laugh.

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