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How Sendgrid Makes Sure Those App Emails Go Through, With Jim Franklin

socalTECH

Editor's note: we're crossposting a version of this interview between our Rocky Mountain site, techrockies.com, and our Southern California site, socalTECH.com). Sendgrid started in Summer of 2009 at TechStars in Boulder, and we've now grown dramatically to 100 employees and 60,000 customers. What is Sendgrid?

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. a social networking site for families), where the Yammer technology was developed.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

SoCal Delicious

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener Posted on 30 December, 2009 This pamphlet is somewhat geeky. Here’s how you can (could) integrate a URI shortener into your site’s architecture. Your site’s architecture may require a different approach.

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Interview with Kinetic Traction Systems

socalTECH

When their parent firm pulled up support for that company in 2004, they went out of business, but the technology and the IP lived on. We completed that agreement in 2009, and were taking the original Urenco design, and began to manufacturer that design. This was deployed at some customer sites, was it not?

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

ThingFetcher sometimes requests a (shortened) URI 30 times per second, from different IPs. A method to verify the bot All IP addresses used by a bot should resolve to server names having a unique pattern. For example Googlebot comes only from servers named "crawl" + "-" + replace($IP, ".", "-") + ".googlebot.com"

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Interview with Dave Waldman, Bccthis

socalTECH

We raised funding in September of 2009, about six months ago, raising $500,000 from private angel investors. We were developing games, applications, and WAP sites for lots of carriers around the world while at Twistbox. My co-founder, Michael Steuer and myself both came from Twistbox, which was later acquired by Mandalay Media.

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