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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. Jim Franklin: Web developers are good at building web applications. Receivers such as Gmail, AOL, and Yahoo don't trust that number.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

The difference is that VoiceXML does not leverage customers' knowledge of web development. Too Early – Twilio secured a $1M seed round during the first half of 2009, nearly one year after we met with Jeff. Similar to VoiceXML, the standard for the past 5-yrs. Seems to be the biggest competitor.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

Leave a reply Find related posts in Social Web , X-Robots-Tag , Redirects , URI shortening , Trolling , Web development , Crap , Crawler Directives , Robots Meta Tags , Twitter , robots.txt Thoughts, findings, notes and opinions on Web development, Web search and SEO - not always serious and sometimes polemic.

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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. Sometimes even smart developers do evil things with your URIs. For example Yahoo truncates the trailing slash.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 1.0: “The Bug Bite” - The Internet Needs a Card Catalogue (I guess that’s a search engine)

Frank Addante

2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. we didnt even know Yahoo! Startup 3.0:

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The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

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Fortunately, many of these issues are widely recognized by the Web development community and there are a number of efforts aimed at addressing these, many of which will see real world deployment in consumer tools near you in 2010 and will then begin flowing into businesses as well. The top 10 posts of 2009 Enterprise 2.0:

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