Micro ISV Digest

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

News and Announcements

• KC announced dotProject hosting.
• Aaron Young launched LifeLog, a time logging tool. via BoS.
• TryBeta are looking for early adopters.
• Dharmesh on another ebay'd startup. He thinks this one is worth it.
• MSN launched their video sharing service, SoapBox.
• Google removing ignored ads? Good or bad for the Micro ISV?

Relevant Blog Posts and Articles

• 10 Better questions for aspiring entrepreneurs, from Rajesh Setty.
• The 8 free things every site should do, on Squidoo.
• Getting out of the "job" mentality when starting a business, on Escape from cubicle nation. Also, on Andrey and guilt.
• Why they don't upgrade and what to do about it, on Creating Passionate Users
• Guy Kawasaki's Art of Distribution.
• The Full-Time Gap on RogueAmoeba.
• Dharmesh Shah, Why Free Trials Aren't.
• How Odeo screwed up, and an Interview with the founder of Cork'd, via WorkHappy's Happy Links.
• Own your niche on Get Slightly Famous.
• Small business heroes on YouTube.

Further (mostly relevant) Reading

• The IT/Business podcast thread.
• The Exchanging Ideas thread.
• The First Step into Game Development, from GameProducer.
• 10 myths about small business blogging, and 101 reasons to have a small business blog, on Pajama Market.
• How to talk yourself out of blogging.
• James Shore's Change Diaries.

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