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Word, Pages and my iPhone

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Today I made a Pages file on my mac, and sent it to my work email.  I then tried to open the Pages file on my PC using MS Word.  No dice.

Well, surely I can open the Mac Pages file on my iPhone and copy and paste the content into something else, right?  No dice again.

What am I missing here?

Great way to think about Social Media

David Meerman Scott (who has great books) makes an anology which is the best I've read regarding Social Media.

To quote,

"I like to think of Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networking sites as the cocktail parties of the city. To extend the tortured analogy even further, Twitter is sort of like when the girls go to the ladies room and talk about the guys while the guys are discussing the girls while they are away."

I especially like how he describes Twitter!

Nicely done David!

Whole Post Here

Government Social Rating Site for Airlines

Apparently Uncle Sam has a place for us citizens to review and post feedback concerning airlines. Check out the full post at AccuConference Air.

Is your business PCI compliant?

If your merchant company for your credit card transactions offers a resource for Payment Card Industry certification, you might want to shop around. We did and found a company to certify us for a 97% discount over the "resource" our merchant company offered.
We used ControlScan and it was flawless.

Friend Feed and the gathering dust of social sites

Now that I am diving into the social sites, I am beginning to realize the vast amount of information which needs to be organized.  Different sites, bunches of info, etc.  Google Reader has been an awesome tool for keeping up to date with dozens of blogs each day (which I thought would be impossible).

My newest addition (one of them) is friendfeed.

http://friendfeed.com/davidbyrd


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