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Quoted: The company of the day is Appature, based in the US. Appature creates Enterprise Marketing Solutions tailored to the unique needs of the healthcare industry.

Gayle Laakmann, now of EmptySpaceAds created this site (with online $25 PDF), to help people prepare for a technical interview (like Microsoft).

What a bizzare state of affairs. It's legal for me to make a copy of my media, but illegal for anyone to sell me product that will allow me to do so.

Quoted: it may well be fair use for an individual consumer to store a backup copy of a personally-owned DVD on that individual’s computer, a federal law has nonetheless made it illegal to manufacture or traffic in a device or tool that permits a consumer to make such copies

BillG's reminiscences from 1979.

Quoted: Our Gizmodo '79 celebration may have ended last week, but there's room for a final post, written by famed retiree and mosquito wrangler Bill Gates. It's no joke: Gates read the series then sent this in:

Quoted: Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. — Sun Tzu from “The Ancient Art of War”

Seriously? Microsoft put all this PR effort into a product launch and Bing.com just says "coming soon"? How is it that working in a large organization turns otherwise very smart people into idiots.

Another insightful post from SmoothSpan, this time on Microsoft and search.

The Virtual Earth guys sit next to me, and I can overhear them assessing their new brand.

Quoted: Microsoft Virtual Earth was our enterprise mapping platform. This was the set of APIs you would leverage to embed maps into your web site along with overlay data in the form of pushpins, polygons, polylines, raster overlays, etc. etc. Microsoft Virtual Earth is now called “Bing Maps for Enterprise.”