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...
The good news first Delicious as we have known it has now been bought by the guys who founded YouTube (Chad Hurley and Steve Chen). Created as a social bookmarking tool they intend the site to remain the same. Since buying the tie from Yahoo, we can expect some interesting changes and upgrades in the future. The Duo can can be expected to transform the site into something good given their credibility in this field and in the market. Now if you do not want to loose all those bookmarks you have been using over the years and the ones you have come to trust you need to login to Delicious and transfer or export them. To do so please login here . This would need to be done by Sep 23 or you will loose your bookmarks forever. This is what is found on the page. It would surely seem that a lot of social is going to be infused into Delicious. Delicious is social bookmarking: All your bookmarks in one place Bookmark things for yourself and friends Check out what other people are bookmarking An ori...