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

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Jim Franklin: Sendgrid is a cloud-based email service. 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. Explain why someone would use your service, rather than set up your own email servers? What is Sendgrid? READ MORE>>.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

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Finally we get to: Peter Coffee , Director of Platform Research, Salesforce.com His premise is that we should be beyond having to buy servers, software, or any other infrastructure. application services (security, integration), etc. He sees this as similar to what happened with SMTP, POP, HTTP, etc. Server and client in Java.

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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.

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