Development

The job of being a web developer seems pretty great to people who aren’t developers. You get paid well, your skills are in high demand, you get to work on cool projects, and tech companies give you fun perks like a $16,000 productivity boosting Nap Pod. But let’s be honest…. … while some of the […]

In our effort to help anyone build and send effective email campaigns, we have taken our suite of Simple Email Marketing Tools to a whole new level. And today, we’re happy to introduce our biggest update yet to the SocketLabs Email Designer. Here are just a few of the improvements that we made: With a […]

See how we made it even easier for anyone to create a great looking email with our Email Designer. Today, we’re proud to unveil the first of many big changes to the Email Designer coming from our dedicated developers and designers who managed to do some awesome work, even with Nerf Darts blazing past their […]

With even more access to marketing data, marketers are focusing more on personalization of email. According to emarketer.com, over 67% of US marketers are using data to personalize their email messages. When it comes to tactically creating a personalized email on the SocketLabs platform, custom fields will help you accomplish this. That’s why: We’ve improved […]

Take Your Notification API and Inbound Parse API Endpoints Serverless with Azure Functions SocketLabs offers a suite of powerful programming language agnostic APIs, which enable application developers to integrate with the SocketLabs On-Demand platform. Two of our popular APIs are the Notification API and the Inbound Parse API. When you send mail through SocketLabs On-Demand, […]

Our Gift to Software Developers, Marketers & Designers SocketLabs API Templates allow software developers to programmatically send email content which is easily created in our new email designer. By separating the email content and design from the code, marketers and designers have full visibility into and control of the email content, design, and branding. Furthermore, […]

Start Simple With Responsive HTML Email Design In the world of transactional and marketing email, the actual process of coding your content into HTML and CSS has been described as a black art. A large variety of differing email clients rendering your messages, each with a different level of standards (non)compliance, and the need to […]

In Part 2 of our series on Inbound Parsing sample applications, we’re examining a simple web application built with Node.js, MongoDB, WebSockets, and D3.js. Though aimed more at developers, this post also might serve to inspire some business use cases for SocketLabs’ Inbound Parse feature. To start off, let’s take a peek at the front […]

New API and Other Great New Features This past week we released some brand new Socketlabs On-Demand features and functionality that we think our customers are going to love.  We have a brand-new email API which we call our Notification API.  The new Notification API delivers real-time event tracking notifications (messages sent, failed, etc…) via […]

The SocketLabs On-Demand delivery infrastructure allows for senders to tag each outbound message with two custom identifiers [MailingID, MessageID] that help improve reporting capabilites.  These values are included in the message header before SMTP injection, or they are specified as a parameter in the HTTP Injection API.  For more information on setting up these values […]