Micro ISV Digest

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

News and Announcements

• Matt Breckon released his free tool for saving bookmarks and notes, Scrapbook.
• Marc Johnson launched an image keyword translation tool, BabelPix.
• Teddy Lindsey was looking for feedback on his new smart phone beta product, Smarter Tasks.
• g was looking for feedback for Aninvoicer.
• Axioma were looking for feedback on a free browser toolbar, Axioma Searcher.
• Carlos was looking for feedback on his wayfinder idea on BoS.
• Benji chose his winner.
• Scott Meade's "7-days to a product" rails week blog.
• Borland/DevCo announced new affordable Turbo versions of the Delphi line.
• Google defensive on click fraud detection.

Relevant Blog Posts and Articles

• Matt Breckon's Micro ISV Failure series.
• Esc. Cubicle Nation: Is there a sure fire way to know your business will be successful?
• KC started a business for geeks series: Getting Started.
• Dharmesh continued his technically gifted series: Presentation Tips.
• Also on presentations, Paul Graham on how to give, Dharmesh on how to watch.
• How to be an effective entrepreneur on Business Pundit.
• Seth Godin on innovation, Another brick in the wall.
• LifeDev's Idea Dumping Tips.
• Wil Schroter: You're not the only one suffering (but it'll probably get worse).
• Creating Passionate Users, Are your users stuck in "P" mode?
• Confused of Calcutta on Trust and The Long Tail, if you rebuild it they will come.

Further (mostly relevant) Reading

• Great Seth Godin video (about this is broken).
• Two email perspectives: Don't check it in the morning vs Check it in the morning. Bonus: the fallout from the first article's reddit exposure.
• Guy Kawasaki's 10 questions with Dr Evil. Do Micro ISVers use Jigsaw?
• The best top ten list of the week: Patrick's Ten reasons why most internet writing is terrible.
• Andrey Butov, Hate your job?
• The invisible grip.

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