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Kevin Henrikson is a seasoned technology executive and entrepreneur with deep expertise in building productivity tools and scaling engineering teams. After serving as Vice President of Engineering at Instacart, where he led the Shopper & Fulfillment Engineering organization, he became the founder and CEO of Dust Labs. Prior to Instacart, Kevin co-founded Acompli, which was acquired by Microsoft; there, he led engineering for Outlook on iOS, Android, and Mac. Earlier in his career, he played key roles at Zimbra, contributing to its acquisition by Yahoo! for $350 million. Kevin is also the co-founder and former CTO of Alpha Brand Media, a digital media publishing company. As an angel investor, he supports entrepreneurs working on disruptive solutions in mobile, crypto, enterprise SaaS, and consumer internet sectors.
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One reply on “AJAX Music & Album Art Search”
[…] Put together an AJAX demo using Amazon’s webservice API. Basically type in an artist name or song title and it’ll return the first 10 hits from Amazon’s music search. It’s using script.aculo.us for the ‘Grow’ effect when the results return. the search itself is triggered via java script, and parsed locally. The result also triggers a contextual AdSense ad. Tried a few different ideas and seems an embedded iframe worked best. My goal was to make it work without a page reload. So to get an AdSense ad that is contextual to the search I needed to generate a url and title string from the query itself. Anything else seemed to lead to generic ads. I’m sure there are ways to improve on it. If you’ve got an idea leave a comment! […]