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Over the last week, Viacom, reportedly after negotiations went nowhere, demanded YouTube remove 100,000 videos. Now, people are complaining that legitimate videos got swept up in the Great Purge, including this guy who had a video of him and some buddies discussing RSS and OPML, deleted because it occured in a restaurant that shares a name with a CBS personality.

While the morning discussion over tea and scones focused on Google's acquisition of enterprise wiki software firm JotSpot, Cond Nast's Wired Digital division received a present from its corporate masters, who purchased news-sharing site Reddit for Wired.

Only Fox hasn't made a full-length episode of a broadcast TV show available in some manner online, now that CBS has plans to do so with 'Threshold'.

Meg Whitman may have revealed the way Skype can hit some of the financial targets eBay set for it in an interview with Time.

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. is following Citigroup's lead, agreeing to settle a lawsuit from Enron investors for $2.2 billion. Morgan was accused of having a role in a big accounting fraud scandal at Enron.

The ground moves with a confusing shift sideways, followed by a bump, then a lurch and finally a massive rumbling explosion that splits the earth and swallows whatever is in its path on the surface. This happens with disturbing regularity lately and aftershocks knock formerly solid firms off their strong foundations. Infoseek, Go.com, Direct Hit and Excite collapse.

"Form follows function" is a term coined by the Bauhaus of the 20's and 30s to describe how a building or object's appearance (such as a chair) should be dictated by its purpose. Although the Bauhaus philosophy of design has had many successes and some dramatic failures, its application to web design has been more conceptual than applied. In other words, most web authors prefer to design with their creation's aesthetics in mind and not just it's function.