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The Trump-Xi Beijing Summit: What the Smiling Handshakes Won't Tell You

On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...

How to make a Facebook-to-Facebook video call from within Skype

Image: 424help Skype and its partnership with Facebook has just gotten a little bit more social. You can use Skype to chat with all your Facebook pals. It is very simple to set-up and enable and once done you can chat with your Facebook buddies from within Skype. The move strengthens the bonds between Skype and Facebook and takes social networking to a whole new level.  How too use, enable or start a Facebook-to-Facebook video call. 1. Login to Skype 2. Click on the Facebook button within Skype and sync you Facebook and Skype accounts together 3. Once done you Facebook contacts appear alongside your Skype contacts 4. Click on your Facebook contact to start a video chat. So go ahead and use this to have loads of fun with all your Facebook buddies. An original post by Sociolatte

Jimmy Kimmel: National UnFriend Day 2011, Nov 17

This video might come a little late but Nov 17, 2011 is National UnFriend Day or NUD for short.  Jimmy Kimmel on his live show spoke about this day and this is the second time it is  happening  in world history. This day also has a slogan 'Un for all and all for un'. There is also a system based on points to help you decide which of your friends need to be unfriended. If you check the video out below and find that a friend reaches 50 points then it is time to unfriend.  An original post by Sociolatte

Music Notation Training helps budding musicians to practice reading staff notes for free

Looks like I still remember all my notes You know how difficult it is to practice reading sheet music. Every person who want to learn music will need to first get used to these staff notes. Web App music notation training comes to the rescue. If you need to practice your music notations you can do so here. The idea is to keep practicing even when you not playing and it's only that that you will be able to get your , e.g.b.d.f and f.a.c.e  right. With this app which is also available for the iPhone and iPad, you get to see the music notations on the stave and there is a space below each note you you to type in the corresponding music note. If you type the right note in the app shows you it's correct and if you type the wrong note then the app will display the correct one. This is one good way to get a hang of music notations. You can also change the clef from treble to bass. Check it out now if you need a little help with speed reading music notes.  Notationtraining.com An origi...

Vinswer will let you make money with your expertise via live video chat

Vinswer is a web app the promises to help you make money via live chat. With this service you can set up a widget within your blog, website or facebook profile advertising your expertise on any given subject. People who have questions regarding your subject of expertise can set up a Q&A with you for a flat fee. How Vinswer works You need to sign up and then create your video answer to sell with anyone on the internet. Once your account is created you can then start embedding your widgets anywhere to spread the word. Yes you can embed the widget anywhere on your blog, site, Facebook, Twitter anywhere for people to be able to see you. Once someone is interested in listening to your answer they can show their interest and you can set up a chat. Once both parties have agreed, the listner can then pay the sum before your share your answer.  For Blog and Site owners If you have a blog or a site you can embed the widget on your site and users can search for experts who have answers. You e...

Snoop Dogg overtakes Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on Google+

Snoop Dogg has overtaken Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder and CEO to become the third most followed person on Google+. Of course in Google+ parlance it would be the third most popular person circled in Google+. With this Snoop has only two more people to overtake to become the most circled person on Google+. The two people above him are Britney Spears and Google' chief Larry Page. Snoop Dogg broke the news on his G+ account with the words.  ay  + Mark Zuckerberg  told ya i was comn for ya spot! . Snoop also posted a image of the same showing his growing popularity on Google+. His team is very active on the service with constant updates for all his fans. In fact Snoopy's team is quiet cool and quick to embrace new media out there. They also have a Hotbox room on Chill. We have already covered Chill and you can read about it here .   It has been noted by many writers that it was celebrities and starts that make social networks like Twitter popular. That might be true to ...

Using your new Google+ page: This is what you need to know

This post is just a word of caution to Google+ users. The reasons for this is to help you avoid silly mistakes that could happen especially if you are operating and running the Google+ business page for your company. The mistake that plagued many Twitter and Facebook uses is this. Accidentally posting personal stuff to your official account, many a person in charge of their companies Twitter account have accidentally posted personal stuff, and potentially harmful and embarrassing stuff on an official account they were managing.  How does this relate to Google+ pages. This is what you need to know. When you login to your account and start to use your Google+ account as a page. You are no more your personal account but using the service as a page. let's illustrate this further. Drawing an example from Facebook. Now if you login to Facebook and access your Facebook page. Whatever you post to that page you are posting as an admin. What ever updates you do will pertain only to that page...

How to edit your Google+ business page

Google+ have opened up the use of business and brand pages. Which has come as boon for many small businesses who would like to put this new source of social media traffic to good use. Setting up your Google+ page is easy and fun to do and can be accomplished in three easy steps. We have already written about setting up a Google+ business page which can be found here .  Once you setup and create your Google+ page you will then need to edit it and start adding stuff. Works like any other business page and you can start reposting stuff from your Website and blog. how to edit your Google+ page 1. Login to Google+ 2. Beside your photo and name you will find a drop-down menu with the number of pages you have created. 3. Use the drop-down to select the page you would like to update Note: When in page editing mode you are now not your profile but using Google+ as a page. So once you finish editing and updating your page. You will need to follow the above mentioned process and choose your Googl...