Notes from the field: Pimp my bride. This one is addressed to those who have “made a killing selling backdated stock options.” Specific names withheld. But, you know, those folks with money to burn and no moral hangups about fantasy services, the DC Madam, and beautiful girls seeking special treatment. What can I say? It’s Cringely.Month of startups: Day 2 spotlights how Huddle.net “infuses the organic simplicity of MySpace with the black art of enterprise knowledge management,” into a Web-based collaboration solution. And what’s different about that? “With something like Microsoft SharePoint or Basecamp, which are really hosted extranets, it’s not real collaboration,” says co-founder Andy McLoughlin, in Huddle: MySpace for the enterprise crowd. “It’s not being able to work with anyone you want.” Day 1: Panther Express aims to make CDNs realistic for even the little guys. View the slideshow. Best of the blogs: Too good to be true? At least going by the headline Finally, some patent sanity, this article could be. Or perhaps it’s just a return of sorts. “Today, I feel some of that old faith coming back,” declares Matt Asay. He’s responding to two high-profile lawsuits, Microsoft v. AT&T and KSR Int’l v. Teleflex. “The Supreme Court’s law clerks are a bit more computer savvy than previous generations. Maybe eventually we’ll get a few open source savvy clerks in, and all hell will break loose.” The news beat: Microsoft releases some Windows Live APIs in an effort to drum up developer support, particularly among small- to medium-sized businesses. Big Blue’s CEO Sam Palmisano, meanwhile, says at the company’s PartnerWorld conference that SMB will be the largest industry for IBM. Sun Microsystems took one step closer to its 16-core Rock microprocessor. And Vonage files to vacate a patent ruling. Technology Industry