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

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The best way to describe this is by example. It can be deceptively easy to set up your own, SMTP server, to send email on behalf of that app. What is Sendgrid? Jim Franklin: Sendgrid is a cloud-based email service. We move transactional mail between web applications and end users. The problem is when the things go wrong.

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

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For example we have a theme we call human computer interaction, a theme we call Glue – which is a software layer that glues things together on the internet. We have a theme we call Protocol, which are technology protocols and markets built around technology protocols like SMTP for email and RSS.

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

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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.

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