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

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We move transactional mail between web applications and end users. Jim Franklin: Web developers are good at building web applications. However, every web application needs and email component. It starts when you register for a web application, the app send you a confirmation email, which is transactional email.

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Phonevite Lands In LA

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Both Nahm and Kim were at voice-over-IP firm Dialpad, which was acquired by Yahoo in 2005. Phonevite is angel backed, and allows users to record messages via the web or a phone, add phone numbers to send that message to, and schedule a time to send the message.

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Social Networking and Business Value

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A 12 - year veteran of the online world, he has worked in sales, business development and content partnership functions for Yahoo!, He is known for being able to monetize the social web. Dr. Tony Karrer, CEO/CTO of TechEmpower Dr. Tony Karrer is the CEO/CTO of TechEmpower, a software, web, and eLearning development firm.

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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

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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. Obviously, the other important thing is that now that we have a web-based client, a Gmail application, it will be easier to install than Outlook, if only conceptually.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

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requestHandler.php [L] Please note that the code above kinda disables the Web server’s error handling. Here are a few ideas how to block rogue (crappy, not behaving, …) Web robots. from the IP address range 65.52.0.0 Other rogue bots identify themselves by IP addy, user agent, and/or referrer.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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Most of these bots don’t obey robots.txt , that means you can’t even block them applying Web standards ( learn how to block rogue bots ). Their developers are just too fucking lazy to understand such protocols that every respected service on the Web (search engines…) obeys. ″, “somebot/2.0″,