Micro ISV Digest

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

News and Announcements

• Marc Johnson released Micro Stock Watcher, a tool for tracking your stock photo portfolio.
• IBank Patrick finally stopped beating around the bush and launched Got Fantasy Football.
• Jonathan Matthews is looking for feedback for the beta version of DeepTrawl.
• Nathan Ridley looking for guinea pigs for his live chat web application.
• Phillip is planning a .net localization tool, do you have any feedback or advice for him?
• Amazon launched EC2, computing on demand.
• Google launched an API for Base.
• $258, 100? The price for a web 2.0 calendar. Phil chipped in another Kiko opinion, Dharmesh had a bit more to say.
• Dharmesh launched a new blog, Small Business 2.0.

Relevant Blog Posts and Articles

• Getting people to talk about your product, from Eric Sink.
• KC's Business for Geeks: Ideas.
• Outsourcing for Micro ISVs from Patrick McKenzie.
• Customer Support from TryBeta, and a follow up on apologizing from Patrick.
• Customer Service How Not To from Stephane.
• All Customers are Liars, by Yaro Starak.
• Top 5 business maxims that need to go.
• Startup Success video with Guy Kawasaki... summary from OnStartups (thanks Dharmesh).
• Being your own customer, from Dharmesh.
• The Nuts and bolts of Keyword research, part of a web site makeover series from Guerrilla Marketing.
• Great iterative design example from 37 signals. Also, Define your own success.

Further (mostly relevant) Reading

• A Google maps mashups blog.
• Assumptions have a Sell By date, on Creating Passionate Users.
• Another 10 questions with Seth Godin, this time from Hugh MacLeod.
• When your blog post is going wrong, from CopyBlogger. Also some copywriting book suggestions.
• Rajesh Setty: Help, someone stole my idea!
• Matt Cutts, SEO Advice: Writing useful articles that readers will love.
• Why simple is hard and the obvious isn't (worth it just for the Mark Twain quote).

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