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

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If you think of Pinterest, one of our customers, every time content is pinned or re-pinned, an email is generated to let users know that is happening. It can be deceptively easy to set up your own, SMTP server, to send email on behalf of that app. For $79, you get 100,000 emails, and you're able to control your own IP address.

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The Web is Against the Ropes, But it’s Not Dead

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The start of the argument is that you need to separate using the Internet into “infrastructure & cloud services&# (basically the protocols of the Internet such as HTTP, TCP/IP, SMTP, etc. + The problem with AOL is that they bundled content with access and that content wasn’t really the web. It was AOL.

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