I was surprised to read that Foldera, an online information management company, was a publicly traded company despite the fact that they are still in CLOSED beta.

Michael Arrington explained in Feb 2006 that this happened through a reverse merger. OK, that was a year ago - and even today it seems they are still in closed beta. Huh?

See also this ZDNet preview article from May 2006:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Orchant/?p=98&tag=nl.e539

Quoted: Foldera has raised $13 million since its launch. Last week it completed a reverse merger into an existing (shell) public company, raising an additional $8.5 million. It is now a publicly traded (OTC) company with a market capitalization of $70 million. Yeah, its crazy - they haven’t even launched yet.

How Bill Gates manages his infomation day to day. Describes his email filtering and prioritizing system, his use of SharePoint, and Think Week.

This looks really great - an little 8-page pocket oranizer you can print on a single sheet of paper. In Outlook, we did a bunch of custom booklet printing - but there we would print all of your contacts, or calendar, for example. This site lets you design a useful little sheet on which to write to organize yourself in a portable manner.

Now, I want a double-sided one!

Chandler article - October 2002

Quoted: Mitch Kapor thinks the world needs another PIM – and he might be right. He's funding development of an open source PIM that promises to "be in the spirit of Lotus Agenda" - more of which later - with the help of one of the key programmers behind the Macintosh, Andy Hertzfeld, and a small team of very experienced developers.

October 2002 Kapor blog on Chandler startup (claim to be a revamp of Agenda)

Description of Lotus Agenda