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...
YouTube has announced on it's official blog that they have launched their own URL shortening service "Youtu.be". This has been done they said to make you feel rest assured that when your clicking a youtu.be link you are indeed click on a YouTube video. Also because the link contains the video link. Developers can do interesting things with it like, show you thumbnails, embed the video directly or track how the video is spreading.
In order to use the feature you would need to use AutoShare.
AutoShare allows you to automatically share your YouTube Activity Feed to Facebook, Twitter and Google Reader. By opting into AutoShare, when you perform certain actions (specified in your Activity Feed) on YouTube, AutoShare sends an update to your friends on Facebook, a tweet on Twitter, and notification in Google Reader about those actions.
To use youtu.be manually, simply take a URL like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdeioVndUhs and replace the"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=" with "http://youtu.be/" to get: http://youtu.be/FdeioVndUhs Plug that shorter URL into a browser, and you'll see it redirects to that video.
In order to use the feature you would need to use AutoShare.
AutoShare allows you to automatically share your YouTube Activity Feed to Facebook, Twitter and Google Reader. By opting into AutoShare, when you perform certain actions (specified in your Activity Feed) on YouTube, AutoShare sends an update to your friends on Facebook, a tweet on Twitter, and notification in Google Reader about those actions.
To use youtu.be manually, simply take a URL like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdeioVndUhs and replace the"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=" with "http://youtu.be/" to get: http://youtu.be/FdeioVndUhs Plug that shorter URL into a browser, and you'll see it redirects to that video.
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