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<rss version="2.0"><channel><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://tumblr.superfeedr.com/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"/><description>We announced the private beta for Grid.com on March 4th, 2009 at Ecomm in San Francisco.  Grid.com is based in the Soma area of San Francisco.

The company provides a frictionless API for developers to gain access to multiple services and tools.

Founding TeamJames Siminoff- Chief EvangelistMark Dillon- Chief Technical EvangelistChad Womack- COO (he does the real work)

The company is privately held.</description><title>GRID.com</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @grid-com)</generator><link>http://grid.com/</link><item><title>We have been a little quiet...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;But believe me we have been working really hard.  We will be opening up our Alpha (would call it Beta but Google has really killed the word Beta) pretty soon.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Looking forward to showing everyone what Grid is about, the infastrucutre is kick ass and will be providing some increidble things very soon!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://grid.com/post/94377828</link><guid>http://grid.com/post/94377828</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:26:10 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Reuters Article</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Had some nice quotes in Reuters yesterday:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;“In 2005 we needed 10 to 20 times the money we need today. There was a certain amount that entrepreneurial intelligence couldn’t get around. Somehow you had to pay that piper,” said James Smirnoff, chief executive of Grid.com and Simulscribe, which changes phone messages into text.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Ruby is a free, open-source language that Siminoff’s chief technology officer, Mark Dillon, said is so concise he can do in three lines of machine code what it took him 25 lines in Java, an older language. That speeds up program revisions.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The article (&lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE52Q4PX20090327"&gt;click here for the full text&lt;/a&gt;) really describes the movement that Grid is built around and for.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://grid.com/post/90664186</link><guid>http://grid.com/post/90664186</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:06:38 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Mark and I up on stage at eComm presenting Grid, hope to have...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/LpPSy39pCkr9xxapgBCpZspvo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mark and I up on stage at eComm presenting Grid, hope to have the video soon.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://grid.com/post/84259545</link><guid>http://grid.com/post/84259545</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:22:12 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Announcing Grid.com today</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Mark and I are speaking about Grid.com today at noon at eComm in SF.  Looking forward to releasing more about the business today and seeing the feedback that we get.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://grid.com/post/83168093</link><guid>http://grid.com/post/83168093</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:05:54 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>We bought the twitter account “Grid” yesterday from...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/LpPSy39pCkcewjr9QMK2iTveo1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;We bought the twitter account “Grid” yesterday from its previous owner.  The person who sold it was a very nice and offered a fair price to move himself to another account.  While we could have done something like Griddotcom as the account we felt that it was important to have the 4 letter name be ubiquitous across all platforms.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://grid.com/post/81129839</link><guid>http://grid.com/post/81129839</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:44:00 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Thanks for the kind thoughts Josh!</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/LpPSy39pCk2v6wwoZpzLxAG1o1_r1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for the kind thoughts &lt;a target="_blank" title="Josh" href="http://redeye.firstround.com"&gt;Josh&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://grid.com/post/79217492</link><guid>http://grid.com/post/79217492</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:22:00 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>The story behind our name (click here)</title><description>&lt;a href="http://jamessiminoff.com/post/79110644/6-months-for-4-letters"&gt;The story behind our name (click here)&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://grid.com/post/79110991</link><guid>http://grid.com/post/79110991</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:23:00 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Get on our list</title><description>&lt;p&gt;We would like to keep you informed as we roll out Grid.com to the public.  Just send a blank email to &lt;a href="mailto:info@grid.com"&gt;info@Grid.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://grid.com/post/78961230</link><guid>http://grid.com/post/78961230</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:58:00 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Day 1</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Well not really day 1 as we have been working on this business for a very long time… but we did finally get the domain name, &lt;a href="http://www.grid.com"&gt;www.grid.com&lt;/a&gt;, today.  Pretty exciting day for the team at GRID.com.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Much more to come…&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://grid.com/post/78407628</link><guid>http://grid.com/post/78407628</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:28:46 -0500</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
