I ve trying to submit html emails to amazon s mechanical turk using the questionform xml data scheme. I m having issues converting the html emails into well formed html data. I just input a script to grab it from my table and print the data inside the tags of the html email, but as you can see below, it s terribly formed and will not pass to mechanical turk - I ve had to send the data as htmlentities() until now and this makes it difficult for HIT workers to easily solve my issues. Here s an example of how not well formed the data is - any tips on how to send this data through mechanical turk (php) or convert it to well formed html data would be appreciated.
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complex shapes. He shows you how to create a fancy solution in CSS, even
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What Cloud Computing Can Mean for Your Business, Part II
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Starting out, what do we need? We have to be able to communicate
with our customers and suppliers, so we need email, perhaps instant
messaging. If we have overseas or long distance clients, some kind of VOIP
phone would help to keep costs down.
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We must ensure that anything we re working on is properly backed
up from the business plan to product concepts and beyond. Any loss
of data could be crucial when getting your product or service to market at
the right time. Keeping an eye on our schedule is vital to make sure
important events, tasks, and meetings are managed.<br />
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There s a lot more to address, but this much is enough to get us
up and running so we can get about the business of doing business.
 But if you re not an IT person and you don t know how to
setup email servers or backup systems, where do you begin?
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Google has been a provider of innovative products in the cloud for some
time, but many are unaware just how powerful these applications can be.
Gmail, for example, offers free email accounts with enormous amounts of
storage, and an easy-to-use interface. Your email can be accessed from
anywhere, you never have to delete as everything can be archived, and
backups are taken care of for you. The only issue is that you may want to
avoid sending emails to a big potential client from an anonymous, free
Gmail account; to make a proper impression, you need to be able to have
your own email address under your company name.
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Google Apps for Business account for the trifling sum of US$50 a year,
which lets you transfer your email hosting to Google s servers.
It s a very simple process, and once done you have full IMAP
access to your email from anywhere in the world, with a guarantee of
availability and uptime that few can compete with certainly not in a
small business.
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The cost increases as you add more email accounts, but it s still
less than you d pay to host a server with your own email software on
it. You can set up a normal email client like Outlook or Apple mail to use
the server, or use the user-friendly Gmail interface on the Web. This
means that no matter what happens, you ll always have access to email and
the ability to send from your own email address, even if your personal
computers fail. There are more great benefits to using Google Apps, but
we ll explore those in the next article. For now, check out <a
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EDIT: Just changed it to fix the issues below, and it s still not passing the validation test - any additional steps I should take/try?