Micro ISV Digest

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

News and Announcements

• Andrey launched, 96bosses, a wall street programmer community.
• Jason Kester announced Blogabond, a travel blog community/service.
• Joshua Volz announced Llama Carbon Copy, a backup tool.
• A new version of Surfulater was released.
• SQLite adds full text search.
• Google bought YouTube. 10 reasons it wasn't you, from gapingvoid.

Relevant Blog Posts and Articles

• No Silver Bullet.
• Andrea Nagar shares his Bits du Jour experiences.
• Follow Steph on the economics of phone support.
• Implementing a Portal Site with Joomla, from Andrey Butov.
• A Case Detective post release round up from Ian M Jones.
• Dharmesh on competing with venture funded rivals.
• 10 reasons people make stupid decisions.
• The Myth of the Serial Entrepreneur.
• Easy competitive intelligence for Micro ISVs, from Bob Walsh.
• Features vs. Solutions, from Carmen Ferrara.

Further (mostly relevant) Reading

• The good freeware tools thread on BoS.
• Okdork: Why you should never blog.
• Money quotes from business books.
• Rajesh Setty's Best of Rajesh Setty on entrepreneurship.
• 10 reasons you shouldn't go to film school.

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