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

socalTECH

Jim Franklin: Sendgrid is a cloud-based email service. We move transactional mail between web applications and end users. Explain why someone would use your service, rather than set up your own email servers? Jim Franklin: Web developers are good at building web applications. What is Sendgrid?

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RescueTime Seeks To Introduce Great People To Great Companies

Tech Zulu Event

RescueTime , the makers of a web-based time management tool, has come up with another service aimed to help companies find potential new employees. For example, if someone spends a lot of their time in a text editor such as, TextMate, chances are good that they are a great programmer or web developer.

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Events and Networking in Los Angeles

SoCal CTO

For me, these are folks who are actively involved in wide variety of technology-enabled businesses. Unfortunately, a lot of networking events attract more service providers and people out of work than interesting people. And, yes, I realize that Im a service provider, but I also am a CTO for several companies.

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Web Second, Mobile First

Both Sides of the Table

The world is adopting smart phones and for many young people and many people in the developing world this will be one of their first computing devices. They are location aware, which is important in personalizing the service offering. Therefore if your app is geared toward leisure activities (games, communications with friends, etc.)

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Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles?

SoCal CTO

I personally believe that there are lots and lots of good developers working inside of organizations who would love to work on the interesting projects that we work on all the time, yet they arent out actively looking, so its almost impossible to find them. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Journey Platform To Build Data Gathering Mobile Apps | Co-founder Interview Conrad Hofmeyr

Tech Zulu Event

The names “Embark” and “Journey” relate to how our products are used by companies who have distributed workforces that go out to all sorts of places “in the field” where they provide services. As an example, Banking Machine Services is a company that maintains thousands of ATMs across Southern Africa.

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Africa’s Largest and Fastest Growing Social Network | Interview with LAGbook’s Chidi Nwaogu

Tech Zulu Event

Students will create a social circle that mimics their social activities in school. LAGbook and Facebook offer totally different social services. Raising fund to meet up with the increasing user growth and activities on LAGbook has not been easy though. LAGbook is the top social networking service born out of Africa.