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The Trump-Xi Beijing Summit: What the Smiling Handshakes Won't Tell You

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...
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THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE adds social interactivity and official website

Official website for the third installment of the  THE TWILIGHT SAGA :  ECLIPSE , starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner. As fans wait eagerly for the third installment, the creators of the movie have been busy adding interactivity to the whole thing. The new movie set to release on June 30, 2010 has a lot of social interaction added to it. You can now follow Eclipse on Twitter, Myspace, Facebook, YouTube and Yes it also has an iPhone App. There is also an official movie trailer out for The Twilight Sage: Eclipse Follow The Twilight Sage: Eclipse on: Twitter   Send us your best  #EclipseTrailer reaction video and we'll post all next week! Please include  #EclipseTrailer so we can see them! Facebook MySpace YouTube iTunes .  Some of the best Apps for Twilight fans are Vampire guide for forks, Twilight tracker, Twilight Scene it, Forks Tour and Twilight the movie game. Enough to keep their fans busy till the movie release.  An original post by Sociolatte
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Van Natta Resigns as MySpace CEO.

Owen Van Natta is stepping down as CEO of struggling Internet social networking site MySpace, effective immediately. MySpace's parent, News Corp. made the announcement late Wednesday. The former Facebook executive will be replaced by co-presidents Mike Jones and Jason Hirschhorn. All three men joined MySpace last April. Jon Miller, the chairman of digital media for News Corp., said he and Van Natta agreed to his resignation after discussing his personal and professional priorities. A major shake up at MySpace, where Owen Van Natta is out after less than a year. Stepping up to run the social network are the other two members of the troika brought in by Jon Miller, chairman and CEO of Digital Media for News Corp. ( NYSE: NWS ), last year to run the company: Mike Jones and Jason Hirschhorn, who are now co-presidents reporting directly to Miller. (Miller’s memo below, as is the release.)  More to come . Miller’s Memo —————————————————————————— Everyone, Today we announced that Owen Va...
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Facebook and myspace refuse to enbed 'report abuse' button

Reports indicate that both facebook and myspace have refused to embed a 'report abuse' button. This is a button that can be installed that once clicked will do the following. "According to a report in New Scientist, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) has devised the free “abuse button” that would link children and teenagers to advice and put them in contact with counsellors and law enforcement officers" And both sites have claimed that due to technical issues this cannot be done. Facebook also saying this has been tried before but has not been successful. Also since the sites are global facebook would like to have its own global reporting system An original post by Sociolatte
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