Micro ISV Digest

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

News and Announcements

• Norbert Ruessmann launched DevTracer, a trace monitor. Via email.
• Jitesh Patil launched Silo, a project management and collaboration tool. Via BoS.
• Andrew Stewart launched TaskMate a task and project management system. Via BoS.
• Rohan Almeida was looking for feedback on Imsense, an IM management system.
• Nick Hebb interviewed on Startup Something.
• Dave Collins is offering free adwords consultations.

Relevant Blog Posts and Articles

• Government Whore, and My Story, from Building a Software company.
• Postmortem, from Diary of a failed startup.
• Building Youtube, on NewTeeVee.
• Leveraging OSS as a software developer, from Patrick.
• Increasing conversion rates and looking for suggestions, from Software by rob.
• The secret to success is perseverance, from Follow Steph.
• Last day or so for the 30 day challengers. Here's what Phillip, Mike, Rafael, Bracken, Scott, Steve C, Steve M, ProjectIffy, and Patrick have been up to this week.

Further (mostly relevant) Reading

• How to do well in a recession, from FoundRead.
• No marketing = no sales #1 and #2, from Bruce on Games.
• How to avoid being fan boy, from EfCN.
• Will gas prices bring back desktop software, from bugninja.
• 4 contacts every web worker should have, from WWD.
• How to play the odds game and win with Digg, from Skelliewag.
• Feedback Fail.

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