By Bob Walsh “Empowered” over at the Business of Software Forum today asked if micro-ISVs should join Microsoft’s Buddy Program – I feel so strongly that this is a Yes! I had to do this quick post. Here’s how it works: You get teamed up with a Microsoft Employee (not a contractor) based on a [...]
Continue reading... October 29, 2006
links for 2006-10-30
mozdev.org – delicious: index A handy tool for managing “daily links” to different del.icio.us accounts. (tags: del.icio.us)
Continue reading... October 25, 2006
Product Focus: RSSBus.com
I’m trying something new here, starting today: I’ll be inviting (imploring?) different vendors to stop by here and explain, without marketing hype, why micro-ISVs should know about their software, service or product. First up is Lance Robinson, one of the guys behind RSSBus.com. I personally think RSS has dozens of as yet untapped uses, and [...]
Continue reading... October 24, 2006
MegaNiches for micro-ISV’s
Clay Shirky, Wired Magazine, Nov. 2006, makes the that absolutely valid point that in a world where the billion person Internet is a reality, a teeny slice of the pie can be a huge number of people: 1/10 of 1% of the people online is one million people. This has major implications for micro-ISVs. Here’s 5:
Continue reading... October 19, 2006
It’s high time micro-ISVs kill email
by Bob Walsh Tuesday of this week I didn’t read e-mail. I had to get up at an incredibly early hour to catch a flight to meet with the people on a project in another city then flew back and collapsed into bed. Wednesday morning when I got all my e-mail in one pass, it [...]
Continue reading... October 13, 2006
Can micro-ISV’s save the world?
by Bob Walsh Over on the Business of Software forum this morning, Portman Wills asked very good question: if giant companies like American Express, Apple and Motorola can have “red” versions of their products where a portion of each sale is used to purchase anti-AIDS drugs in Africa, why not micro-ISV’s? While I think this [...]
Continue reading... October 12, 2006
Easy competitive intelligence for Micro-ISVs
If you’re going to run your micro-ISV as a business, you need competitive intelligence (CI) on your competitors. Fortunately for micro-ISV’s, there’s two tools which make it easy to construct and maintain a fairly good CI system. What’s more, at least for now both these tools are free.
Continue reading... October 11, 2006
A micro-wiki for micro-ISV’s
micro-ISVs need away to organize all the pieces of static non-code information they amass as they build the application or website — from use cases, business decisions, and application decisions to passwords, URLs to check and random thoughts. Tiddlywiki (at http://tiddlywiki.com) an awesome, powerful free JavaScript single file HTML application for this and more.
Continue reading... October 10, 2006
Building community around your Micro-ISV product
By Bob Walsh Usability expert Jakob Nielsen – who has a singular talent for going out and measuring what most of us think is happening on the Web – reports that of any group of 100 online community members, 90 are passive lurkers, 9 participate somewhat and only one is fully active. This does not [...]
Continue reading... September 6, 2006
Everything You Need To Know About Registration Systems
By Patrick McKenzie, orginally posted at his blog, MicroISV on a Shoestring +++ Ed. Note: I was so impressed with Patrick’s post on what micro-ISVs need to understand about the registration process, I asked Patrick if I could reprint it here. The 10 comments his article got (so far) are almost as good!: read them [...]
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