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

socalTECH

Sendgrid started in Summer of 2009 at TechStars in Boulder, and we've now grown dramatically to 100 employees and 60,000 customers. For $79, you get 100,000 emails, and you're able to control your own IP address. Controlling your IP address is a big deal. Receivers such as Gmail, AOL, and Yahoo don't trust that number.

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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. He has also been a Regional Sales Director and National Account Director for Facebook.

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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. What we really wanted was, we wanted to own the IP, lock, stock, and barrel, and be able to exploit it on the desktop, on mobile, and on whatever device might come out. How long has Bccthis been around?

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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. from the IP address range 65.52.0.0 Other rogue bots identify themselves by IP addy, user agent, and/or referrer. crawl.baidu.com";}. to 65.55.255.255 (131.107.0.0

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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"