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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). For $79, you get 100,000 emails, and you're able to control your own IP address. Controlling your IP address is a big deal. What is Sendgrid?

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Individuals use social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo as career-advancing tools, even more useful in a down economy. Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?"

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Interview with Jason Spievak, RingRevenue

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The way it works today, is a web site might have an affiliate link, people looking for a mortgage or refi will input their info, and hit submit. As technology people, we all live and breathe Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, and AOL. Jason Spievak: With the prevalence of pay-by-call solutions, advertisers are finding this compelling.

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Interview with Dave Waldman, Bccthis

socalTECH

We were developing games, applications, and WAP sites for lots of carriers around the world while at Twistbox. What we really wanted was, we wanted to own the IP, lock, stock, and barrel, and be able to exploit it on the desktop, on mobile, and on whatever device might come out.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

SoCal Delicious

Here’s how you can (could) integrate a URI shortener into your site’s architecture. Your site’s architecture may require a different approach. By integrating a URI shortener into your site architecture you gain the abilitiy to perform way more than URI shortening. from the IP address range 65.52.0.0

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

ThingFetcher sometimes requests a (shortened) URI 30 times per second, from different IPs. A method to verify the bot All IP addresses used by a bot should resolve to server names having a unique pattern. For example Googlebot comes only from servers named "crawl" + "-" + replace($IP, ".", "-") + ".googlebot.com"