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...
CircelMe the social networking site for people to discover new places and recommendations from fellow CircleMe users -- has an announcement to make. Through the private API of Songkick, Circleme users will now be able to keep updated of concerts by their favorite musicians happening around them. With this new recommendation service CircelMe gives users the chance to view concerts happening near them also book tickets and add value to the social media site. Stamped the social network that worked on the principle of people stamping things and places they liked -- CircleMe's known competitor, has been acquired by Yahoo and should be Sunsetted by the end of this year. This leaves CircleMe as the only place for people to collect things and be updated about them. So you can find your favorite bands on CircleMe, like them and be updated on all their activity and what other users are also saying about them. This is a definite + for those who like to follow their bands and also interact wi...