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A couple of weeks ago the BBC hosted twenty-six people from seventeen organizations including eight OpenID Providers and eight OpenID Relying Parties (sites which accept OpenID logins) in New York City to kick off an OpenID Content Provider Advisory Committee. The goal of the session was to answer specific questions by the Content Provider community (media companies and national affinity groups) as well as to provide feedback to the OpenID Foundation, its member companies, and the wider community on the future direction of OpenID.

Social Media moves so fast, its hard to keep up. Here's the week's top stories from around the blogosphere, in scan-friendly format. This Week: * Twitter Cuts SMS Access * Movable Type Goes Social * AOL to Acquire Socialthing * ReplyFeed.com : Social Media Conversation Management * Google's Failed Acquisitions in Social Media * Facebook Launches New Social Ad Unit, and Gets Sued... Again