Monthly Archives: June 2012

The Hidden World of Transactional Email [Infographic]

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Transactional email is booming: web applications are sending an average of 631,000 transactional emails per month. See more results from our recent survey.  

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Startup Weekend London Brings Together UK Tech Entrepreneurs

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Most people look forward to the weekend because they can relax, sleep in and take care of overdue errands.  With that said, there is a growing group of individuals who roll up their sleeves and commit to creating new companies in just 54 hours.  This is being made possible by an organization known as Startup Weekend.  Started in Boulder, Colorado in 2007 with the aim of bringin together passionate entrepreneurs for a weekend still rings true today with success stories including companies like Zaarly, Foodspoting and CloudMine. Related PostsYoung Rewired State: Empowering Young Minds To Do Great Things London Hackers Bring Home the

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[Webinar] Your Toughest Email Infrastructure Questions Answered

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Of all the major headaches in the world of email, maintaining your own email infrastructure may be the biggest. One wrong step could get your IPs blacklisted or leave your infrastructure vulnerable to phishing attacks. Join email experts Ken Apple and Carly Brantz on July 31st at 1:00pm EDT as they answer your toughest email infrastructure questions to help you keep your emails flowing to the inbox. This webinar will cover: Related PostsWebinar: Q&A with Ken and Carly Introducing the SendGrid Guide to Email Infrastructure Back to Basics. If You Can’t Send an Email, What Can You Do? Customer Success

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Find Out When SendGrid is Coming to Your Town

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As Developer Evangelists we are constantly on the road looking to help developers who are either current SendGrid users or are experiencing pain related to building and maintaining an Email infrastructure. In the case of our current users, our goal is to be your advocate back into SendGrid in order to make your experience using our APIs as smooth and easy as possbile. For those that have not “seen the light”, we hope to illustrate how SendGrid can save you tons of time and money, allowing you to get back to hacking on your product while keeping a smile on

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Hollywood Hack Day Recap

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On June 8th, I headed out to the city of fame and fortune – Hollywood, California. But not to schmooze with the stars, instead I spent the weekend watching some amazing hacks created by over 90 developers and designers. Related PostsSendGrid Delivered hits NYC September 12 Code Campin’ at SoCal Code Camp Become an Inbox Insider with SendGrid Delivered Lone Star Ruby Hackathon Recap Hackers Redefine Work at Box Hackathon

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Multiple User Credentials

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We are extremely pleased to announce the release of a new SendGrid feature that allows administrators to create and manage additional user access to SendGrid features. Having “MultiAuth” or multiple credentials provides multiple users the ability to send messages without requiring access to the administrator’s credentials. Related PostsCustomer Success Story: Award Winning Digital Agency, Cyber-Duck Benefits from Cloud Email Capabilities Vote For SendGrid In The 2013 SXSW Panel Picker eCommerce Hack Day Brings New Challenge To Developers SendGrid Expands to Denver Customer Success Story: Extole “Likes” SendGrid’s Deliverablity Expertise and ISP Mediation Solutions

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Email Phishing is On the Rise, Especially for Financial and Retail

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The Anti-Phishing Working Group is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to eliminating identity theft and fraud that results from phishing, crimeware and email spoofing. APWG recently released the Phishing Activity Trends Report, 2nd Half 2011 and as always, APWG’s data provides a comprehensive overview of how phishing attacks affect the global landscape of the email universe. Here are some of the key findings from the report:

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