Micro ISV Digest

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

News and Announcements

• Boris announced the beta release of SportaVista, a hosting service for clubs. BoS link.
• GameProducer announced GameRelease.net a game press release distribution service.
• Agynamix released Dopus 0.9.1.
• Andrey is organizing a MicroISV/BoS meetup in New York next week.

Relevant Blog Posts and Articles

• Why Micro ISVs should exercise, from Bob Walsh. Also, Widgets mean money for Micro ISVs.
• So you want to be an Indie Developer, from Lemmy and Binky.
• So you want to be an Indie Developer, from GameProducer.
• The Phenomenal Force of Focus, from Dharmesh.
• Choices = Headaches, from Joel Spolsky.
• Localization doesn't matter, from Eric Sink.
• The Zone of Expendability, from Creating Passionate Users. Also, a great post on Adding Graphics.
• Pinprick, from Daring Fireball.
• How important is your installer, from FollowSteph.

Further (mostly relevant) Reading

• The hughtrain, mark two, on gapingvoid. Also, Hugh has been running a mini-manifesto series, posting 500 word manifestos from friends and readers. There's some great stuff on there, it's well worth checking out.
• Five reasons why the list post is dead, from CopyBlogger.
• If you don't want to get anything done, Andrey points us to the Warcraft trial download.
• Creating Advanced Custom Search Engines, from OuterCourt.
• The definitive heatmap, via BoS.

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