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

socalTECH

We move transactional mail between web applications and end users. Jim Franklin: Web developers are good at building web applications. However, every web application needs and email component. It starts when you register for a web application, the app send you a confirmation email, which is transactional email.

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

Both Sides of the Table

I had a really fun 20-minute interview with Howard Lindzon of Stock Twits as part of a 5-part series on whether the web is dead. The topic of whether the web is dead was kicked off by Chris Andersen of Wired Magazine in this article. The Internet existed long before the World Wide Web and web browsers were created.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Mentions - Marc Andreessen's - The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet A Level 1 platform's apps run elsewhere, and call into the platform via a web services API to draw on data and services -- this is how Flickr does it. He sees this as similar to what happened with SMTP, POP, HTTP, etc. Server and client in Java.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 We have a theme we call Protocol, which are technology protocols and markets built around technology protocols like SMTP for email and RSS. Was about a billion dollars on the IPO” and “was one of the first web analytics companies. was starting. Human Computer Interaction.

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

Both Sides of the Table

The Internet and World Wide Web themselves emerged from open protocols (HTTP, HTML, SMTP, etc) that allowed businesses, individuals and governments to put information online that was accessible to the masses and then to build applications on top of this infrastructure to the benefit of the masses. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.

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