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MetaCloud Raises $10M For Private Cloud Service

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The startup, which is led by Sean Lynch and Steve Curry, offers up on-premise, OpenStack-based private clouds to companies, who want to deploy cloud service but do not want to have to manage the infrastructure and maintenance of those cloud deployments. READ MORE>>.

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

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We spoke with Jim Franklin , the firm's CEO, to hear more about how the company went from an accelerator startup at TechStars just a few years ago, to now more than 100 employees spread across offices in Boulder; Colorado, Anaheim, California; Frankfurt; London, and elsewhere, to tackle the problems of transactional email. What is Sendgrid?

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

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End users don’t care about the technical details anyway, so there has been some interesting work on standards for social activity streams and activity stream aggregation. which has already been adopted by Facebook, MySpace, Windows Live, and Opera and many others with Google and Yahoo! The standard to watch is activity strea.ms

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