Micro ISV Digest

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

News and Announcements

• Yanic Inghelbrecht launched V1 of TraceModeler. Via BoS.
• ShuffleTexts released Cloudseed, a tag cloud generator. Via Blog.
• Andrey and I released Christmas Slots, a festive game for the BlackBerry.
• A new version of CaseDetective was released.
• A new version of Text2Go was released.
• Rulsan Savchyshyn was looking for site feedback.
• Michael Bacarella was looking for site feedback.
• Oliver was looking for site feedback.
• An update on the uISV class of 2007, from Chris.
• An interview with Mark Gladding (Text2Go), from Clarke Ching.
• The new BitsDuJour got a big thumbs up on BoS.
• Google released some new Mac tools.
• Rails v2 was released.
• Last week I forgot to mention the Free SnagIt offer.

Relevant Blog Posts and Articles

• Deconstructing a failing startup, from PHL SKL
• Paying Lip Service to Failure is not enough, from Instigator.
• So you've got an idea, now what? from Found|Read.
  Also, Success Tips.
• Deciding what goes into your product, from 47hats.
• Premature Scalaculation, from OnStartups.
• Always have a customer lined up, from Wil Schroter.
• Choosing First Year goals, from Joel Marcey.
• How do you know the right time to quit your day job, from EfCN.

Further (mostly relevant) Reading

• How to Bootstrap your indie art needs, from Lost Garden.
• The best of CSS design 2007, from Web Designer Wall.
• Press release mistakes to avoid, from GameProducer.
• Where there's muck, there's brass, from Joel Spolsky.
• The "blog" of "unnecessary" quotation marks.

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