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's annual developer conference has started and yes there are many of us who would like to know what's happening and what's the latest scoop. We know now that Google has apologized for the Google Wave confusion. They are also building an App store for web applications. The conference has 5,000 developers and over 100 developers will be showcasing their technologies. Google's largest developer conference of the year will feature technical content featuring Android, Google Chrome, Google APIs, GWT, App Engine, open web technologies, and more. Follow @googleio or Buzz for the latest updates on I/O. (official hashtag: #io2010) Watch the I/O keynotes live on the GoogleDevelopers YouTube channel . To view the schedule for the keynotes, check out the Agenda page . I/O stands for according to Google innovation out in the open @googleio on Twitter (#io2010) Google I/O on Buzz An original post by Sociolatte