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...
Google in a Tweet today said they are mark 5 years of Google blogging and nearly 1 year of Tweeting. Their blog post on the same dedicates an entire paragraph to their Twitter experience and commitment to the same. Since jumping into Twitterverse in Fed of 2009 Google now has more than a 1,000 posts with 2,028,948 followers as of this time of writing. They also said the 75 other Google entities have gotten into the Twitter Act. They further said that Twitter was their biggest non-Google refer to their blog in 2009. We are all proud that Twitter has grown and proven to the world that micro-blogging and connecting people on a single platform has united the world in a way never know before and opened doors to people great and small and companies great and small. Cheers to a new decade of Twittering
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The Following has been taken from their blog
What captured your attention this year? Here are the top 10 posts of 2009, by unique pageviews:
To follow Google on Twitter @google
The Following has been taken from their blog
What captured your attention this year? Here are the top 10 posts of 2009, by unique pageviews:
Introducing the Google Chrome OS - 2,591,794 unique pageviews (more than 12 percent of the year's total). The announcement of our open source operating system received more than 4x the views of any other post.
Went Walkabout. Brought back Google Wave - 639,225. Wave-mania struck after we introduced a new product for collaboration and communication at our Google I/O conference.
Here comes Google Voice - 357,084. We released a preview of this application to help you better manage your voice communications.
"This site may harm your computer" on every search result?!?! - 320,435. A short-lived error affecting Google search results led to confusion and concern; this post cleared it up.
Email in Indian languages - 224,052. A transliteration feature in Gmail that makes it easier to type in Indian languages was a hit. More than one million readers of the blog in 2009 were from India — a 53 percent increase over 2008.
Releasing the Chromium OS open source project - 217,424. A few months after announcing our operating system project, we open-sourced it as Chromium OS.
Now you see it, now you don't - 165,329. We introduced a new, clean version of our classic homepage.
Google Apps is out of beta (yes, really) - 164,319. Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk all lost their beta tags (in Gmail's case, after five years!).
Now S-U-P-E-R-sized! - 155,196. A "small" change increasing the size of the Google search box got a lot of attention.
Introducing Google Public DNS - 143,122. We launched our public DNS resolver, which converts domain names into unique Internet Protocol (IP) numbers.
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