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...
Who will own the web's primary identity model. Facebook with it's 350 million members has made Facebook connect so popular, that Yahoo now has heavy facebook Connect integration and relies heavily on the platforms users to use this feature as a primary sign-in tool and share direct updates with all their friends.
Google has now signed up with Twitter to do something on the same lines. Google Friend connect with it's 9 million websites is now allowing users to signify with their Twitter users name and password. Once you join a new site you can directly tweet updates to your Twitter contacts.
Now that it's launched we will need to wait and see what users have to say about it.
Google has now signed up with Twitter to do something on the same lines. Google Friend connect with it's 9 million websites is now allowing users to signify with their Twitter users name and password. Once you join a new site you can directly tweet updates to your Twitter contacts.
Now that it's launched we will need to wait and see what users have to say about it.
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