Micro ISV Digest

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

News and Announcements

• Marcin Brzezinski is looking for feedback on his new Help Desk app, Your Clients.
• David Duey was looking for feedback on his Feed Gadget control, and advice on marketing a control.
• C.Deck was looking for feedback on his new Flash My Brain, flash cards training software.
• Jakub launched a wireless plugin for SugarCRM (via BoS).
• Tim Guinther is launching ModelRight, for Oracle data modeling (via BoS).
• Jorge wants to revolutionize email with EmailXT.
• Tam launched a forum for his Palm-based ISV/blog.
• Alex built News Hawker, to combine all his favorite news sources (via BoS).
• A new version of DBDesc.
• 37signals launched their new Gig board, a jobs board for short term projects.
• Google Code Search.
• The Netflix coding contest: $1million up for grabs. More on BoS.

Relevant Blog Posts and Articles

• The Freshbooks CEO interview on Workhappy.
• Matt Cutts answers questions about PageRank.
• Oops... we forgot about the users, from Creating Passionate Users.
• Escape from Cubicle Nation: How to get experience and credibility.
• Dharmesh: Selling technology to small businesses.
• Ian Landsman's mini-marketing site experiment. Also, 10 tips for moving from programmer to entrepreneur.
• Andrew Chen: 5 ways I screwed up my first website.
• Hal's ISV Prime blog. Via John Gunning.
• Paul Graham: A Student's guide to Start-ups.
• KC's Business for Geeks: Vision.
• Get Seth Godin's bootstrappers bible manifesto free on ChangeThis.

Further (mostly relevant) Reading

• Keeping an eye on the Visual Studio & Vista situation.
• The Manifesto on Logic+Emotion.
• Rapid Game Prototyping articles, via GameProducer.

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