Micro ISV Digest

A weekly roundup of Micro ISV news, announcements and relevant blog posts. A slightly bloated links section this week, the hangover from last weekend's Shareware Conference.

News and Announcements

• Nathan Ridley launched Website Prospector, a live chat service for you site. BoS link.
• Erhard Smit launched ezWebMiner (beta), a web site mining tool. BoS link.
• Matt Breckon released rssMonitor, a system tray tool for tracking feed changes.
• Maro launched WatermarkIt, for adding watermarks to images. BoS link.
• Face recognition company Riya was reborn as a fashion search tool.
• Matt Inglot points us to Steve Pavlina's business forums.
• Vista & Office RTM'd.
• A little more on the DropSend sale from BugNinja.

Relevant Blog Posts and Articles

• Startup Lessons, from Yaro Starak.
• Startups for the rest of us, from Mike Taber.
• 10 laws of success, from EntreprenerialMD.
• The fastest way to make more money is to raise the price, from Wil Schroter.
• Godin on Trademark, from Seth Godin. Also check out Why Bother? (short & sweet).
• Two simple words of passion, from Creating Passionate Users.
• Should we release now? from Follow Steph.
• An approximate guide to selling indie games, from Jake Birkett.
• When sh*t happens, from Slow Leadership.
• Connecting to your customers, from Mark Cuban.
• Why you should never keep your new product a secret, from Ian Landsman.

Further (mostly relevant) Reading

• Nine things developers want more than money, from SoftwarebyRob, vs. Money really does matter from Dennis Forbes.
• Mind the Gap, from Paul Graham.
• Search Engine Fact Pack 2006, via Caffeine Marketing.
• Why Large Software systems fail, from Zach Moretensen.
• The business idea that came in a dream, from Eirepreneur.
• How to give a Great Presentation, from KnowHR.
• Skymaul.

Unless I have an off-by-1 bug, this is something of a milestone, digest #52. I know for sure that next Monday it'll be exactly a year since I posted #1. Many thanks for reading, thanks to everyone who has linked here over the course of the year, and thanks to all the Micro ISVer's and bloggers out there who've made it all possible.

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