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

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If you're an application developer, sending emails through your application can be a chore. Sendgrid (www.sendgrid.com) has stepped into that void, providing application programming interfaces (APIs) and all the infrastructure required to handle that email delivery. How do you offload all those headaches?

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). I then remember when Amazon started selling books on the web. As John Battelle chronicles in his brilliant (and must read) book, The Search , Google thought this idea stunk. Image courtesy of Bernhardt Haussner.

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Interview with Mark Sylvester, Likeabilitee

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We initially looked at LinkedIn, but we thought it would be more fun to do something in Face book. The concept is, it's an application that runs inside of Facebook, and for consumers, it gives you an alternative view of your timeline. Those sites are on the large side, with 20,000 or 30,000 people. We love data visualization.