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The big news this week is that Facebook, arguably the most closed-off social networking site on the internet, will allow users to log into the site using OpenID credentials given to them by other Web sites. As ReadWriteWeb states,

New Facebook users will now be able to create Facebook accounts using their Gmail credentials and existing users will be able to associate and thus log in with Gmail or any other OpenID account that supports “automatic login.”

The move is likely to make the internet a much more open playing field, as other social networking sites and Web sites typically took to Facebook as a leader on the Web.

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In the forum, Andrew Spittle lead an introduction with the prospective participants of the first session of the Web Design Camp as each described what they were expecting from the virtual camp.

Jake Paul from The Eagle said,

I am a designer but I have lots of development experience, and I knew how to make a site with HTML and CSS before I knew how to mock one up in Photoshop, so I’d be able to ground a discussion of typography in practical details as well (including issues of web standards and accessibility). We might consider combining the session on article design with the typography session as well, perhaps?

On the wiki this week, Daniel updated the CMS page, while Lauren continued to help with the reorganization.

In the news

Last but not least, here are the top fewlinks from the past week that you should check out this weekend (via the CoPress Publish2 Newsgroup):

• Owned? Legal terms of video hosting services compared – The best sites for video sharing seem to be the most restrictive.
• 4 productive summer projects for j-students – Lauren takes a look at some projects for various skill levels of student journalists to partake in this summer.
• Outside.in is looking for summer interns! – Outside.in is looking for unpaid interns this summer to work out of their NY office.
• A tale of two audiences (and beatblogging and topics pages) – Why topical landing pages will add value to the general web audience.