By Bob Walsh Yesterday I got taken to task because I suggested a micro-ISV could build a very profitable business around providing WordPress support, reviews of plugins, and perhaps their own WP plugins. Today, FrSIRT lists this Security Advisory (Thanks cehwiedel, via Twitter): “Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in WordPress, which could be exploited by [...]
Continue reading... April 4, 2007
Some good stuff re micro-ISV blogging…
If I did say so myself! Avangate (a European internet software distribution/ecommerce company) has kicked off a series of interviews with “Web VIPs” (I did not make this up) and for some bizarre reason started with me. The good stuff for micro-ISVs starts about half way regarding what to do and not do when it [...]
Continue reading... April 4, 2007
Microsoft Expression Blend going into MSDN Premium
The powers that be at Microsoft – “Soma” Somasegar, corporate vice-president of Microsoft’s Developer Division – have heard the word from developers and relented yesterday from their bone-headed position that Expression Blend is too cool a tool for codemonkeys: “Following the announcement we received a lot of questions about why we did not include some [...]
Continue reading... April 3, 2007
A tiny WordPress victory
After Michael pointed it out this morning, I found indeed that WordPress was chopping my posts in my RSS feed from this site down to about 3 lines. Now my posts need to be shorter, but that’s ridiculous! What if I said something intelligent, witty, provocative and above all else useful in my second paragraph? [...]
Continue reading... April 3, 2007
A Bill of Rights for micro-ISVs
A discussion over at Business of Software re people who steal software and then have the gall to demand tech support got me thinking: patients have one, consumers have one, airline passengers want one, everyone in the United States has one (even if they don’t know it and it’s a bit frayed around the edges) [...]
Continue reading... April 2, 2007
Monday Site Review ==> Weekly Site Review
Just a quick note – I’m moving the Monday Site Review to tuesday/wednesdayish (that’s a day out here in CaliforniaLand) and renaming it the Weekly Site Review. Also, I need more volunteers! If you’d like me to review your micro-ISV site for free, please drop me a line at bobw@safarisoftware.com.
Continue reading... March 30, 2007
What’s with the Long Tail?
[Editor Note: Dave Collins, noted UK micro-ISV marketing expert, is sharing his considerable expertise on marketing, SEO, Google AdWords and more on Fridays at MyMicroISV. Thanks Dave!] By Dave CollinsFounder, Shareware Promotions It’s not an unusual scenario. We take on a new client, and at the beginning of the SEO process, we start discussing keywords. [...]
Continue reading... March 29, 2007
The key is Perseverance.
The MicroISV Show interview with Jessica Livingston, author of Founders at Work is now up and even if I hadn’t been one of the interviewers, I’d highly, highly recommend it. Here’s why: Jessica has gone out and person to person interviewed 32 people who were either micro-ISVs or VC funded start ups. These people opened [...]
Continue reading... March 28, 2007
The Microsoft Roadshow from a micro-ISV’s perspective…
There’s a very good post – actually several – by a micro-ISV called ProcessBridge.com on his or her take re an MSDN Roadshow event showcasing Microsoft’s latest and greatest. The upshot: yawn, yawn, yawn, WPF!Wow!!, yawn, that’s nice. Have a look if you are still on the fence about what WPF and WPF/E will mean [...]
Continue reading... March 28, 2007
I want that graph and so do you
Seth Godin, the guy behind Squidoo.com and a lot else, has posted and blogged about Squidoo’s pageview chart for its first year: Squidoo now has 100,000 “here’s how you get started with X instead of spending 4 hours on Google” pages and 50,000 “I want to establish my online reputation by helping people learn about [...]
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