Tag Archives: Starting an mISV
DO ISV Websites Keep Bad Company?

DO ISV Websites Keep Bad Company?

by Scott Kane on April 3, 2009 in Download Sites Are Spam, General ISV Issues, ISV Marketing, Micro ISV - mISV, Starting an mISV

It’s showing their analysis of links between websites. It’s rather stunning, if not scary. Note – normally I do not just publish stat’s that don’t have detailed analysis data published with them

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Google Does Evil? Nah – Tell Me It Isn’t So!!!

Google Does Evil? Nah – Tell Me It Isn’t So!!!

by Scott Kane on March 28, 2009 in Google, Micro ISV - mISV

But things seem to be going fast from the sublime to the downright crappy across at Google-Land…

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Having A Laugh At The Jolly Roger’s Tonight – Ouch! – Is That The Pirate Bay?

Having A Laugh At The Jolly Roger’s Tonight – Ouch! – Is That The Pirate Bay?

by Scott Kane on March 18, 2009 in Anti-Piracy, Starting an mISV

Here you go, mISV’s and ISV”s eat your heart out. This is what many Firefox users are seeing this week when trying to access the website run by those anarchistic assholes in Stockholm this week. While the “team” there are attempting to “solve” the problem I’m cheerfully sitting back and having a bloody good laugh at their expense. :-)

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How Many Bots Can A Bot Blocker Block?

How Many Bots Can A Bot Blocker Block?

by Scott Kane on March 13, 2009 in Download Sites Are Spam, Featured Articles, ISV Marketing, Micro ISV - mISV, Starting an mISV

If you run a blog or any site that gives the general public the ability to post a response, message etc then you’ll know only too well how much of a nuisance automatic posting bots are. One of the most chronic offenders is a bot sold out of Germany, I frequently see it here in the logs. That Plimus act as a payment processor for them…

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Lazy + Scared Programmers = Free Software?

Lazy + Scared Programmers = Free Software?

by Scott Kane on March 11, 2009 in General ISV Issues, ISV Marketing, ISV Software Design, Micro ISV - mISV, Starting an mISV

In each of the instances above I’ve found the world is brimming with lazy, scared (and both) developers. Hell, they even get angry when they ask for suggestions for assisting their business and the answer you give forces them to abandon their laziness or scared mindsets.

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