Micro ISV Digest

A weekly roundup of Micro ISV news, announcements and relevant blog posts. Planet Micro ISV's magic RSS gnomes were off sick for a big part of this week, so if I missed your important announcement, feel free to put it in the comments or email me.

News and Announcements

• Andrey Butov released his BlackBerry Spam Filter.
• John released a BlackBerry email tool, MagicMail. Via BoS.
• Orick of Toronto unleashed his secret message site Sayitt.com on the BoS forum.
• GameProducer announced the Carnival of Game Production.
• Bob Walsh announced the release date for his next book, and an upcoming new Micro ISV resource wiki.

Relevant Blog Posts and Articles

• A simple way to plan your revenue targets, from EfCN. Also, 12 ways to feel more free in 2007.
• Back to Basics: User Generated Revenue, from OnStartups.
• The Dumbness of Crowds, from Creating Passionate Users.
• It takes a big person to admit when they made a mistake, from FollowSteph.
• A sample demand curve for a Java component, from Richard Rodger.
• 10 ways to use LinkedIn, from Guy Kawasaki.
• Localizing and Translating software, from Ryan Smyth on MyMicroISV.
• The long tale, via Noah Brier.

Further (mostly relevant) Reading

• How to create games incredibly fast, from GameProducer.
• The AIDA formula for blogging, from CopyBlogger.
• 10 beginner behaviors for GTD.
• The lawyers client manifesto and the end-user manifesto, from gapingvoid.
• The youngest grocer in America, via 37signals.
• 5 useful lessons, on BoS, from Nick Hebb.

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