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...
Chatroulette received 4 million unique visitors in Feburary scoring big on growing popularity. There is just one problem it is estimated that 13% of users are male chatting without their pants on. Foursquare cofounder Dennis Crowley spotted Andrey Ternovskiy, Chatroulette 's 17-year-old founder, in Silicon Valley today. On Twitter, Dennis wrote , " Just met the founder of chateoulette. Totally didn't play it cool & was starstruck like a teenage girl Twilight fan." What do you do when you’re 17, you’re visiting the US from Russia, and you’ve created the Internet meme of the moment? You spend your Friday night camped out in front of an Apple store. Chatroulette creator Andrey Ternovskiy is a really big deal right now, but he had to wait in line for his iPad along with the rest of us. It was a long wait, so I got him to spend some of it telling me about changes he has in store for the site, which lets you talk to, gawk at or “next” random strangers. He’s made a...