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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...

Craigslist: How to sell

If you live in a city that has an active Craigslist community you're in luck. As items on Craigslist can get sold quiet fast. You cannot actually be sure about which items are going to be sold the fastest but sometimes items you put up for sale will actually sell faster than you think. Another good thing about Craigslist is that when you have an interested buyer you can set up a meeting and deal in cold hard cash. On Craigslist it is all about cash and the only other criteria is that your city needs to have an active Craigslist community. It is growing around the world and becoming more and more popular in the US it tops but Craigslist has been expanding into other local areas across the world and aims to be a premier services locally in a host of other countries. How to get started: Once you have decided on the items you want to sell you will need to get them cleaned-up and ready for a photo. You stand a better chance of selling stuff if you have a photo of the item on Craigslist....

How to disable public search on Facebook

There is a quick and instant way to disable public search on Facebook . If you're wondering what Facebook public search is, well, it is your appearance on search engines when people search for you on popular search engines. Like Google, Bing, Yahoo, duckduckgo etc. when public search is enabled on Facebook, you brief profile will appear on search engines when people enter your name. There are many reasons why people don't want to be found on public searches; maybe a Facebook profile was created only for close family and friends or just to stay in touch with a select group. If you think that is you well you might want to head over to Facebook and turn-off public search. Once this is done it will take some time but your information will disappear from all search engines. It takes sometime because all their servers need to get updated. How to turn-off, stop or disable public search on Facebook 1. Login to Facebook 2. Click on the cog icon and then choose privacy settings 3. Click ...

SHOCK: 40% of social media accounts are SPAMMERS

Image Credit:  Digital Media Camp The BusinessWeek has an article which reports that almost 40% of social media accounts belong to spammers. Facebook tops the list with Spammers making headway to abuse the 'Like' button and spammers have not spared Twitter or Pinterest either. Since email companies like GMail are pretty good at blocking spam and Hotmail also going all the way to disable botnets. It is reported that spammers are now turning to social media. Since Social Media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Pinterest are soft targets. Google+ seems to be the better of the lot in terms of trying to stop spammers - with their real-name policy and all. No one of these sites are totally secure. How do spammers abuse the Facebook 'Like' button. If they get you to hit the like button, that means it gets posted to your news feed, your friends then also view it and they might be led to malicious sites which try to do nothing but steal your money and other important inf...

No Church In The Wild video released by Kanye West and Jay-Z

No Church In The Wild is now trending on Twitter and after you watch the video you will not be surprised, as to why. The video by Kanye West & Jay-Z featuring Frank Ocean & The-Dream draws inspiration from all the Occupy Wall street and other protests that have made international news. Last October Kanye West appears in the Occupy Wall street protests in Manhattan and although there for a brief time the experience must have shown him what happens when people and police clash. The title of the song itself has a lot to say. When you out there and protesting anything can happen. Innocent people can get pepper sprayed and a lot of others can get hurt. The video itself shows damage caused by both protesters and cops.  The video was shot in Prague and shows both protesters and cops at war. The clip is quite savage and depicts what happens when the cops and protesters clash. The video does not take sides and has over 200 extras divided into cops and protesters. The video was released ...

Bump: Easily transfer photos from mobile to PC by bumping them together

There is nothing misleading in the title, if you are new to the new App Bump; that is exactly what happens. You can use the App available for both iOS and Android to easily transfer photos between devices by bumping them together. Now the app has gotten even better, once you add selected photos you want to transfer to your PC. Bump you phone to your PC, hit the spacebar to conform and then like magic your photos get transferred, no headache whatsoever.  Bump: How does it work If you are new to Bump, it is an app that lets you share files, photos, contacts and apps between devices easily by bumping them together. The app uses your Geolocation to make sure that your bumps work perfectly and it is best to let Bump use the Geolocation of your browser to ensure there are no mistakes in transferring files. So to transfer photos to your PC you would need to bump your spacebar with your phone. If you worried that it is too fragile and cannot deal with a bump. Simple hold it down and bump your ...

Google Correlate: Helps in better SEO and keyword research data

Now this is another good product from Google and will be especially helpful for people who are into SEO, research or marketing. With Google Correlate you can find out information on products, seasons, trends and a host of other correlated subjects. So once you enter a search term you can find keyword data and search patters that you might not have though existed before. This really helps SEO experts find new keywords that they can use to optimize their content. So if you are a website owner or a blog owner this is one tool you might want to look into regularly. It will show you how search terms that are important to you are related to other terms and how these patters might emerge and do the same patters change with seasons.  Google Correlate is a part of Google Trends and helps in analyzing data chronologically. It is different from Google Trends and insights for search in that it gives you a historical picture of the data that you want to analyze.All the web search data that is being...