Micro ISV Digest

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

News and Announcements

• Phil released BudgetSimple, a desktop version of his budgeting site. Via Blog.
• Keith Alperin launched Mercury Mover, a Mac window managment tool. Via Blog.
• Jason King released FreeDraw, a web drawing/collaboration tool. Via BoS.
• Girish was looking for feedback on LyteCube, a RAD tool. Via BoS.
• Cody Hess launched a couple of alpha apps, do42, and litewrite, via BoS.
• Ian introduced an iPhone interface for HelpSpot.
• A new beta of Krypton was released.
• A new version of Smart Inspect was released.
• A new version of CaseDetective was released.
• Joel Marcey was discussing his micro ISV ideas on his blog and BoS.
• Fraudo is an interesting blog about online fraud, scams, and scammers.
• Ian points to some easy installers for popular Open Source apps.
• Chris Anderson's "Free" video. If you make it to the Q&A, and you think you can explain to me what in the world the fashion girl was talking about, I'm all ears.

Relevant Blog Posts and Articles

• Post Dreaming Reality, from gapingvoid.
• Learning patience, from Grey Alien Games.
• Love thy users, from 47hats.
• 10 tips to recruit a co-founder, from Wil Schroter.
  Also, Inspiration vs Perspiration.
• Deployment Strategy? from Keith Casey.
• Getting luck on your side, from FoundRead.
• Getting good off shore developers, from Matt Rogers.

Further (mostly relevant) Reading

• 52 creative ideas for finding new clients, from bootstrapper
  Also, Carnival of Business and Entrepreneurship.
• 5 business ideas just waiting for an entrepreneur, from EfCN.
• The billion dollar t-shirt, from Seth Godin.
• Stephane's Christmas book gift list.

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