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...
It's nice to see such a large and high-profile company taking to Twitter to try and help repair the damage after the negative backlash due to the recall of vehicles with safety issues. Toyota has decide to deal with it and using the services of TweetMeme and Federated Media have launched a channel to follow conversations and what's being said about them in real time. The site is called ToyataConversations . Most of the results being displayed on the site have a leaning towards the positive aspects of the company but the general feel is quiet negative. Shows that the results bing show are a little bit tweaked towards being more positive. Check out what TweetFeel has to analyze and say about real-time user conversations. It leans towards the negative. Tweet Feel analyzes conversations from twitter and tells you whether it is negative or positive. The good thing though is that large companies are learning the importance of social networking sites and the power behind them. Enoug...