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3:30 PM ET, December 20, 2008

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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Warner Music Group Disappearing From YouTube: Both Sides Take Credit  —  Warner Music Group's videos are disappearing from YouTube.  The move to take down the videos started early Saturday morning.  It's a result of a breakdown in negotiations between Google and the music label over a licensing deal, which was set to expire soon.
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Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:
Warner Music pulls out of YouTube licensing deal  —  Warner Music, one of the first media companies to strike a licensing deal with YouTube, has demanded that the Google-owned site pull down all videos from its artists and songwriters, in a move affecting millions of pieces of professional and user-generated content.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Digg's Sorry Revenue Stream, And Rumors Of An Experimental Ad Product  —  So Business Week gets their hands on Digg's financials and reports that the company had 2007 revenues of $4.8 million and losses of $2.8 million.  The first three quarters of 2008 Digg had revenues of $6.4 million and losses of $4 million.
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Digg's Miserable Business
Discussion: Joe Duck and Business Week
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Huffington Post Blasted For Stealing Content  —  The Huffington Post's news aggregation business drives enormous traffic to the third-party sites its editors link to (including, occasionally, this one).  The Huffington Post also often excerpts liberally from third-party sites' stories and uses …
Markus / The Paradigm Shift:
2008 was a good year, now #13 in the US. … I had a good year this year, taking over the top spots for dating in both the US and the UK.  In the US I managed to break into the top 10 sites in terms of pageviews if you combine Yahoo and googles properties otherwise I'm between 12 and 13 on any given day according to hitwise.
John Foley / InformationWeek:
Chief Of The Year: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels  —  Amazon's external-facing CTO is helping to devise a cloud computing architecture with customer requirements built-in.  —  From an eighth-floor conference room at Amazon.com's headquarters on Beacon Hill, with an expansive view of downtown Seattle to the north …
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
The Wide (and Weird) World of Two-Screen Laptops  —  Lenovo's upcoming ThinkPad W700 mobile workstations are loaded with high-end features, including Intel Core 2 Quad CPUs and Nvidia Quadro Express graphics, RAID storage, and built-in Wacom pen tablets.  But one feature is as close …
Discussion: 1001 Noisy Cameras and Slashdot
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Future iPhones to wield OpenCL acceleration  —  Imagination Technologies has posted a series of job openings for OpenCL engineers, indicating that the open, general purpose GPU parallelism technology Apple spearheaded for use in Mac OS X Snow Leopard is destined to also play a significant role …
Discussion: The iPhone Blog
Reuters:
China blocks Internet access to New York Times  —  BEIJING (Reuters) - China, widely criticized for its censorship of the media, this week blocked access to The New York Times, the newspaper said on Saturday.  —  When computer users in cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou tried …
Dan Nosowitz / Gizmodo:
Nokia E63 Available for Pre-Order for $500  —  Amazon is now listing Nokia's BlackBerry-ish QWERTY E63 phone as available for pre-order.  The unlocked 3G phone can be reserved for $500, though there's no word on release date.  —  The E63, based on the E71, already dropped in Europe …
Discussion: IntoMobile and Boy Genius Report
Nick Farrell / Inquirer:
Judge protects Wackypedia hackers  —  State employees free to post political propaganda  —  IN A LANDMARK CASE, a judge has ruled that it is okay for public servants to post political statements on Wackypedia because identifying them would cause security problems for the government.
Adrian Covert / Gizmodo:
Hands On With The Intel Convertible Classmate  —  After playing with a prototype of Intel's Convertible Classmate, it more or less confirmed what I had suspected: there are some neat ideas at play, but there's a reason why it's aimed at schools.  —  From the outset, Intel's goal …
 
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Jeremy Liew / Wall Street Journal:
Will the Recession Kill Web 2.0?
Discussion: digg.com
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Flash For iPhone Comes Via Jailbroken iMobileCinema App
Discussion: Hack a Day
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
SEC Mandates Interactive Filing; Will Start Phasing In Next Year
Jake Coyle / Associated Press:
On the Net: Hulu is Web site of the year
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Newspapers Suddenly Adapt To Socal Media; Nearly 60 Percent Offer User-Gen Content
Discussion: PR 2.0
Saul Hansell / Bits:
What Xbox Wants to Be When It Grows Up
Discussion: Kotaku and Gizmodo
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Pandora Hits 20 Million Registered Users (Via Twitter)
Discussion: Online Media Cultist and digg.com
 Earlier Items: 
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
After six years, Homeland Security still without ‘cybercrisis’ plan
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Stares Down Labels Over Project Playlist Takedown Demand
Discussion: The Social and VentureBeat
John Cook / TechFlash:
Mag regrets Count Me In CEO story, says it went to press before scandal
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Google Reader quietly launches a “What's hot” …
Jenna Wortham / Bits:
Filtering Twitter, One Tweet at a Time
Discussion: Twist Image and TheNextWeb.com