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	<title>Lean Web Applications</title>
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	<description>Developing lean web applications, thoughts on usablity and user experience design</description>
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		<title>Installing Google V8 Javascript Engine in Mac OS X and in Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This documents describes how to install V8. V8 is Google&#8217;s open source JavaScript engine. We use V8 on JotForm to generate form code on the server side.

========== Installing on Mac OS X ===============
Download and install XCODE 3.2 or higher
download latest stable version of scons from http://www.scons.org/
extract package, cd into directory then run:
# sudo python setup.py [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2011/09/installing-google-v8-javascript-engine-in-mac-os-x-and-in-linux/</link>
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		<title>Parallel Automated Browser Testing with Selenium and Sauce OnDemand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you have a web app that is under constant development Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment are incredibly useful practices. Planned releases may seem like a less risky approach, but they are not. When you do something a lot you keep getting good at it. We release our product ten times a day every day [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2010/09/parallel-automated-browser-testing-with-selenium-and-sauce-ondemand/</link>
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		<title>JotForm 3.0 Released!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[JotForm 3.0 is now released!  
With the new version we are releasing a separate product blog within the JotForm site so I will be posting JotForm related topics there from now on.
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		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2010/04/jotform-3-0-released/</link>
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		<title>JotForm 3.0 Sneak Peaks: Philosophy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I covered many new features of JotForm 3.0 in screenshots. Today, I would like to talk about something different. Something I cannot capture in a screenshot. Today, I&#8217;d like to talk about our philosophy for JotForm 3.0. I think these things are what separates JotForm from the rest of the crowd.

1. We are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2010/03/jotform-3-0-sneak-peaks-philosophy/</link>
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		<title>JotForm 3.0 Sneak Peaks: Survey Tools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many people, including us, use JotForm to create surveys. But, we were lacking some serious features on that front. Our form builder was designed for short question forms and we did not have conditions and branching features. We also did not have many survey input types.

We are soon introducing many new features that makes JotForm [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2010/03/jotform-3-0-sneak-peaks-survey-tools/</link>
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		<title>JotForm Awarded Best Web Tool of 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are happy to announce WebHostingSearch.com awarded JotForm as &#8220;Best Web Tool&#8221; of 2010.
Web Hosting Search is an independent web hosting information guide. Here is what they do on their own words:
We are a group of professional webmasters who have had enough of all the  lousy and half-hearted web hosting providers out there. So, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2010/03/jotform-awarded-best-web-tool-of-2010/</link>
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		<title>JotForm 3.0 Sneak Peaks: Emails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[JotForm servers send around 1 million emails every month. So, the second most important feature of JotForm is &#8220;sending emails reliably&#8221;.[*] Many people just come to JotForm, create a form, post it on their site and forget about it. They keep using JotForm for years without ever visiting our site since JotForm just works. It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2010/03/jotform-3-0-sneak-peaks-emails/</link>
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		<title>JotForm 3.0 Sneak Peaks: Form Builder Overview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While our team is working on the remaining 104 Internet Explorer bugs, I will sneak out and write another JotForm 3.0 preview.   Today, I would like to cover the main features on JotForm 3.0 Form Builder.


We have many competitors. They are really good at marketing. I don&#8217;t really care or look up what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2010/03/jotform-3-0-sneak-peaks-form-builder-overview/</link>
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		<title>JotForm 3.0 Sneak Peaks: Introduction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we are getting ready to release JotForm 3.0 on April 14th, we are getting tremendous amount of interest from our users. I would like to thank all JotForm users for being patient with us. During this time, I will be posting series of sneak peaks about the new version. My goal will be providing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2010/03/jotform-3-0-sneak-peaks-introduction/</link>
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		<title>JotForm Makes You Look Really Smart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
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		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2010/03/jotform-makes-you-look-really-smart/</link>
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		<title>JotForm Awarded Grassroots.org Tool of the Week for Non-Profits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
We are happy to announce that JotForm is awarded &#8220;Grassroots.org Tool of the Week&#8221; for non-profit organizations.
Grassroots.org is an organization that provides free web hosting and internet tools to non-profit organizations. They currently support 2,679 non-profits.

According to Scott D&#8217;Antuono, one of the volunteers at Grassroots.org team, &#8220;Many [Grassroots.org] members have used the Jotform service to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2010/03/jotform-awarded-grassroots-org-tool-of-the-week-for-non-profits/</link>
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		<title>Web App Usability Testing is Good for You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
This is a pretty exciting week in the office. We invited several people to help us test the latest version of JotForm. It was eye opening to see how people behave on these tests. We have always done quick &#8220;what do you think about this site&#8221; or &#8220;what do you think about this feature&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2010/03/web-app-usability-testing-is-good-for-you/</link>
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		<title>Best Way to Improve Upgrade Rates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
How would one optimize upgrade rate on a web service? That&#8217;s a very important question if you have a Freemium web application. It can also be a very dangerous question. Reminds me of a story I read somewhere a long time ago.

There was a very successful chocolate company. They had an incredible product. It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2010/02/best-way-to-improve-upgrade-rates/</link>
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		<title>Fighting Phishing with Bayesian Filtering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Phishing is a big problem. There are literally gangs which employ people in Nigeria to create phishing forms all day long. We know it because we are on the front lines. Our phishing filters suspend hundreds of phishers every month.
Since we are working very hard to make creating web forms easier, as an unfortunate side [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2010/02/how-do-we-fight-phishers-at-jotform/</link>
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		<title>Start Charging Users When They are Successful</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How do you monetize a web application or a web site? What kind of business model makes long term success more likely? These topics are being discussed to death on many web business discussion boards. There are mainly two camps of thought: Cripple the product or provide 30-day trial period then disable it unless user [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2010/01/start-charging-users-when-they-are-successful/</link>
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		<title>Eliminating Waste in Web Applications</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lean thinking is about eliminating waste. Every web application must have a single main purpose. Everything else should be optimized to make that goal easy to reach. If you look at most of the existing web applications today, there are just so many things that wastes user’s time and energy:

Too much marketing material,
Endless registration, email [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2010/01/eliminating-waste-in-web-applications/</link>
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		<title>New Blog Title</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I named my blog &#8220;Web Applications are the Future&#8221; more than 4 years ago, there was a big discussion among software developers on if the web applications can replace desktop applications. Nobody discusses that any more. Probably because web applications have pretty much won. They are getting faster and easier to use every day.
That&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2010/01/new-blog-title/</link>
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		<title>7 Inspirational Drag and Drop Web Applications</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Drag and drop is one of the most underused features on web applications. Although there are really cool libraries, we haven&#8217;t seen a lot of adoption on this front. Using drag and drop on a web application can make it user friendly. It gives users flexibility to easily place and sort objects which can be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2010/01/7-inspirational-drag-and-drop-web-applications/</link>
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		<title>Send Yourself iPhone Push Notifications When Your Site is Down for Free</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been six months since Apple released push notifications however the adoption has been pretty low among website monitoring tools. Probably because creating an iPhone App is not a trivial task. This tutorial describes how to use free tools available (mainly JotForm iPhone App) to send your iPhone push notifications when there is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2009/12/send-yourself-iphone-push-notifications-when-your-site-is-down-for-free/</link>
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		<title>How to Build E-mail Lists using JotForm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent eHow tutorial describes how to use JotForm to create email lists and send them newsletters or your offerings. One of the greatest ways to increase your sales is to send your users periodical emails. Don&#8217;t overdo it. Send them sparsely. We usually send our users 2-3  times a year and only if we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2009/12/how-to-build-e-mail-lists-using-jotform/</link>
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		<title>Great Start for JotForm iPhone App</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been a week since we released JotForm iPhone App and the interest has been more than what we excepted. Over 450 users have installed JotForm App on their iPhone in the first week. Our users also provided nice reviews:

If you haven&#8217;t already, install JotForm iPhone App today!



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		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2009/12/great-start-for-jotform-iphone-app/</link>
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		<title>JotForm iPhone App Now Available on App Store!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
We&#8217;re very excited to announce that JotForm iPhone App is now available on iPhone App Store!
It is completely Free. Install it today to receive and access your form submissions anywhere! You can &#8230;

 Get instant notifications when there is a new submission,
 Browse your recently received web form submissions easily,
 Browse submissions on each web [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2009/12/jotform-iphone-app-now-available-on-app-store/</link>
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		<title>How We Used Lean Development for JotForm iPhone Application</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have finally completed our JotForm iPhone app and submitted it to Apple for review. Once approved it will be  completely free to all JotForm users. I would like to share how we developed the new application with user feedback.

The old waterfall model for developing a product or web site is:
1. Come up with an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2009/11/how-we-used-lean-development-for-jotform-iphone-application/</link>
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		<title>Prototype Your Web Forms Easily using JotForm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SitePoint has always been one my favorite sites. In 2001, they featured one of my free scripts on their newsletter and pointed thousands of people to download it. It was a big rush to see so many users starting using my product. That’s how I started reading them. Back then, they were a small webmaster [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2009/11/prototype-your-web-forms-easily-using-jotform/</link>
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		<title>New JotForm Hardware Architecture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have recently switched to a new hardware architecture for our JotForm form builder service. I am pretty pleased with it because we were able to do it without any downtime or any problems for our users. As a result of this switch, JotForm now has much better high availability, speed and security.  It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2009/02/new-jotform-hardware-architecture/</link>
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		<title>Memberkit Case Study: HomeSellerSoftware.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Being a home seller in this economy must be pretty tough. There is help now! HomeSeller Software has just been released. Its goal is to provide home owners with all of the tools, knowledge and feedback necessary to succeed. Best of all, it is completely free.

One of the major features for this site was to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2009/01/memberkit-case-study-homesellersoftwarecom/</link>
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		<title>Memberkit Case Study: DogSearcher.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DogSearcher is one of coolest sites we have worked on. As a part of our Complete Membership Site Solution we provided design and development services. Dog Searcher is a community site for dog owners. Users can discuss various dog related topics on the forum, make posts on their blog, create profiles for their dogs and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2009/01/case-study-how-memberkit-helped-dogsearchercom/</link>
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		<title>Gmail as Help Desk System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We receive many support emails every day. We also have multiple people responsible for our products. That's why I researched a lot about the helpdesk solutions and found out that they are too complex, confusing and difficult to maintain. Instead we have been using Gmail for many years and it worked well for us. ]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2009/01/gmail-as-help-desk-system/</link>
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		<title>Memberkit 1.0 Beta: First Web Development Framework for Non-programmers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am happy to announce that Memberkit 1.0 Beta is finally here! 
Memberkit has probably been the biggest project we have ever completed for everyone in our team. We have been working on it for more than three years. Most people don&#8217;t know this but actually JotForm was a byproduct of Memberkit. We needed a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2008/11/memberkit-10-beta-first-web-development-framework-for-non-programmers/</link>
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		<title>I am MS Office free. Long Live Google Docs!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, I was surprised to discover that I already have 74 Google Docs documents and pretty much stopped using Microsoft Office for the last year. It certainly did not happen intentionally. I think I&#8217;ve first started using Google Docs in 2006. I have been using more and more Google Docs since then. Today I have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2008/10/surprisingly-i-am-ms-office-free-long-live-google-docs/</link>
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		<title>Keeping it Simple</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am always fascinated with good writing. Maybe because it has many things in common with good software. A good user interface just flows. It is invisible. You get the task done without confusion. It might even be fun. Good writing has that quality as well. It captures the reader&#8217;s attention. Writing becomes invisible and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2008/09/keeping-it-simple/</link>
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		<title>Nice JotForm Tutorial Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Keane Angle  made a nice video tutorial about JotForm. We liked it so much that we are planning to add it to our Tutorials page.


Keane writes a blog called Appify which in his words &#8220;sifts through the crap to bring you the crunchiest reviews of productivity, trendiness and efficiency in Web 2.0 apps and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2008/09/nice-jotform-tutorial-video/</link>
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		<title>CMSes: Why are they still so unflexible?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is 2008. What do you do when you need to create a new web site? 
There are many Content Management Systems but they are still very difficult to install, use and customize. Only a tiny number of sites would like to have a 3-column phpNuke look, but still pretty much all CMSes assume that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2008/09/cmses-why-are-they-still-so-unflexible/</link>
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		<title>DropBox is the Coolest Tool of the Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have just started using DropBox here at Interlogy offices and we are really excited about it. The Mac application works like a charm but they also support Windows and Linux versions. 
Basically you have Dropbox folder on your computer and whatever you put there, it also shows up on other users you are sharing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2008/09/dropbox-is-the-coolest-tool-of-the-year/</link>
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		<title>JotForm on BizTech Podcast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Podcasts are great to listen whether you are lying on the beach or stuck on the rush hour traffic. This episode of BizTech Podcast features JotForm. Check it out. BizTech Podcast is bi-weekly show designed to inform the small business and small business owner about targeted web sites and other technology.
We were also featured on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2008/08/jotform-on-biztech-podcast/</link>
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		<title>Introducing Full Membership Site Solution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have introduced a new product called “Full Membership Site Solution” last month and I am quite impressed with the amount of interest it received. We develop membership software that power thousands of web sites. So, we have been regularly receiving requests from our clients to not only provide the software but also to develop whole site for them.]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2008/07/introducing-full-membership-site-solution/</link>
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		<title>Announcing Profile Manager Premium 4.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new version of Profile Manager Premium is not something revolutionary. It is more of an evolution from older versions. It is more stable, much more scable and looks and works much neater. We have fixed many common problems or confusions. We turned our flat file based database to Mysql instead. Applications are much more slicker now. They are also much more integrated with the member area. Our new tab based design makes it possible for PM Premium to add new tab for each new application. ]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2008/03/announcing-profile-manager-premium-40/</link>
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		<title>How to come up with breakthrough ideas?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When we design software our goal is to make complex things easy for webmasters. So, we have to constantly think about the user interface. We sometimes redesign same functionality many times until we find a way that is easy to use but still flexible. 
Today, we had another breakthrough idea on the new product we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2007/12/how-to-come-up-with-breakthrough-ideas/</link>
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		<title>Best Business Novels You Can Read This Summer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just came back from my two weeks in Bodrum. I like doing some light reading on vacation. Business novels are especially go well under the sun since they are both enjoyable easy-reads and still can help you learn and grow. 
The first business novel I read was The Goal couple of years ago. It was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2007/07/best-business-novels-you-can-read-this-summer/</link>
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		<title>JotForm 2.0 Released!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am excited to announce that we have finally released JotForm 2.0. Since its first release more than a year ago, we have been constantly getting great feedback from hundreds of users. It seamed that JotForm really solved a need for webmasters: Creating web forms easily. 

JotForm user base has been growing with an increasing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2007/04/jotform-20-released/</link>
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		<title>A Park was Named After Terri Tinsley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Terri was a PM Premium user. She passed away in a car accident in 2003. She was a very passionate and warm person. She even once wrote a case study about PM Premium here.  Her husband who took over their Wisconsin Dog Rescue site has sent me this announcement&#8230;

Hello Family &#038; Friends!
Some of you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2007/04/a-park-was-named-after-terri-tinsley/</link>
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		<title>Your Homepage Should be The Application!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since JotForm has been released one of remarks I received often has been why we don&#8217;t have a regular homepage. You know, the common wisdom supposed to say a homepage should give some introduction. It is supposed to talk about what is the service is all about, why do you need it, how great it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2007/03/your-homepage-should-be-the-application/</link>
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		<title>How JavaScript Crossed the Chasm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Until couple years ago, doing anything more than simple form validations or image mouseovers with JavaScript was considered drudging work. Not many people understood or appreciated this small but very powerful language that run on our browsers. It wasn’t even seen as a serious programming language. Fast forward to today suddenly it is the new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2006/03/how-javascript-crossed-the-chasm/</link>
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		<title>Worksheets are Forms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dennis Daniels is a teacher who believes teachers should stop pushing papers and start using web forms instead. He  produced  couple of training screencasts for teachers showing how to use JotForm. In these movies he creates questionnaires for students and shows how to collect data.
 
When technology becomes easier, everybody starts using it. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2006/02/worksheets-are-forms/</link>
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		<title>JotForm Launch and First Impressions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Launching a new site is always fun and exciting. You put a lot of hard work on something and have that great feeling of accomplishment. At the same time there is that scary feeling that something might go terribly wrong. And it sometimes really does happen. 
My worst war story was TheCounter launch on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2006/02/jotfrom-launch-and-first-impressions/</link>
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		<title>JotForm BETA Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am very excited to announce that the first web based WYSIWYG form builder JotForm BETA is now released. Try it yourself.
Completely Free!
JotForm is currently completely free.  It will stay this way during BETA period. I must admit I have not decided on a business model yet. The most possible outcome will be a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2006/02/jotform-beta-released/</link>
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		<title>Building Web Forms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been looking and looking for a good intiutive solution for form building. There are tens of form builder sites and products on the web and they are all crappy. I am guilty as well. I made my share of ugly form builders. But I believe I finally solved the problem. It was so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2005/12/building-web-forms-easily/</link>
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		<title>How to Easily Backup Your Site in DVD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know I promised to talk about the new product I am working on. But I will have to wait couple more days for that. Today I will describe how I setup a backup system for my sites. I have always found that backing up sites in a some CD or DVD very useful. It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2005/12/how-to-easily-backup-your-site-in-dvd/</link>
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		<title>Why Start Blogging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I have noticed something. Everyday I spent at least an hour reading some blogs and forums. The interesting thing about this is that I don&#8217;t feel this as a waste of time. On the contrary, it is usually educational and provides me energy and excitement for the stuff I am doing. I am mostly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://atank.interlogy.com/blog/2005/12/why-start-blogging/</link>
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