Nick Bradbury, creator of HomeSite, TopStyle, and FeedDemon recently started publishing a series of valuable tips for independent software developers. Good stuff from someone who as been through the process successfully — more than once. [link via Ranchero.com]

Guy Kawasaki speaks on The Art of Innovation in a video published by Microsoft’s Small Business Summit. This is the first time I’ve heard Guy speak and he definitely has a great style. Very inspirational, informative and funny. [via My Micro-ISV] He’s definitely sold me a copy of one of his books.

Releasing a 1.0 product is an interesting, exciting, and exhausting experience for a software developer. I can’t remember a time where I worked as many hours in such a small time span and was not only willing to do it, but couldn’t wait to jump out of bed every morning to get started. The craziest [...]

Manton Reece has shared with us his sales data for the first 75 days of selling Wii Transfer. His graph clearly shows spikes (and dips) related to specific marketing and version release events. An interesting side note is that his beautiful graph was created with Keynote.

Daniel Jalkut announced on his blog this morning that Red Sweater Software has acquired Mars Edit from NewsGator. Official Press Release Q&A with Brent Simmons and Daniel Jalkut I’m very much looking forward to where Daniel will take the already terrific blog authoring tool, MarsEdit.