Monthly Archives: June 2011

Softlayer Email Delivery Service: powered by SendGrid!

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Today, we’re happy to announce a new partnership between SendGrid and Softlayer that brings together our common passion for making developers’ lives easier. As we’re all aware, when it comes to integrating email functionality into web apps, things get complicated and frustrating very quickly. Through our newly founded collaboration with Softlayer, SendGrid continues its quest to make email simple for developers. Related PostsSendGrid Delivered hits NYC September 12 Customer Success Story: Award Winning Digital Agency, Cyber-Duck Benefits from Cloud Email Capabilities Become an Inbox Insider with SendGrid Delivered Vote For SendGrid In The 2013 SXSW Panel Picker eCommerce Hack Day Brings

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Rainmaker Developer API Challenge

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Do you love hacking on APIs? Are you tired of your address book contacts being out of date? If so, we’ve teamed up with our friends over at Rainmaker to introduce the Rainmaker API Challenge. The Rainmaker API Challenge is a month-long (well, now it’s a half-month:)  contest where developers can win part of a $30,000 prize package which includes $2500 cash, an iPad2, and some free SendGrid credit! The rules are simple: Build something incredible using the Rainmaker API and submit it to the contest by June 30, 2011. I realize you only have two weeks left, so get

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Hacking APIs at Internet Week in NYC!

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  I’m leaving behind the humble hills of Boulder this Wednesday, and heading to the BIG Apple for Internet Week! While I’ll be enjoying many of the festivities involved in this enormous gathering of technophiles, I’m most excited about SendGrid’s third API Hackday, which we are hosting on Thursday, along with Aviary and SimpleGeo. We’ve sponsored and organized two API Hackdays over the last several months, having covered SF and Chicago so far. Given the success of the first two events, our inaugural NYC showing is sure to be awesome! If you’d like to learn more about API Hackday and

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SendGrid Developer Community

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Hey there! My name is Tim Falls, and I wanted to officially introduce myself to all who are, for whatever reason, interested in SendGrid. If you’ve followed our company over the last few years, you may have seen my name here and there – on the blog, on the twitters (“^tf”), or maybe even IRL at events around the country. I’ve been involved with SendGrid since the early days in the bunker and joined the team on a full-time basis in May 2010. After taking on a wide variety of responsibilities over the past 12 months, I have landed in

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