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

Both Sides of the Table

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

socalTECH

(Editor's note: we're crossposting a version of this interview between our Rocky Mountain site, techrockies.com, and our Southern California site, socalTECH.com). 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.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

He sees this as similar to what happened with SMTP, POP, HTTP, etc. Stamps.com - two back-ends - mainline service vs. marketing site. From BBM's web site: media RSS - extensions to RSS subscription format to support time based media, enclosures, copyrights and other meta-data needed for media. Server and client in Java.

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