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At an event strictly for developers in San Francisco, Twitter announced an expansion of the preexisting Twitter Cards to include three new types of Cards: App, Product, and Gallery, as well as a new feature for mobile apps: Deep-linking.

dooh in Finland gives people a chance to vote whether the guggenheim museum should build a gallery in the city. shows a Facebook "like" or "dislike"

A 200ft high digital sculpture was unveiled on top of the flame of the Statue of Liberty in New York City yesterday, to mark Independence Day and the launch of the Beck's Green Box Project, the world's first global networked augmented reality gallery.

"The site has three themes: Timeless Tiffany includes the story of Tiffany, including its diamond heritage, major milestones, masterpieces, drawings from the Tiffany Archives and a virtual hall of fame that showcases vintage ads and images of jewelry from every fashion era from the Gilded Age to the present day; Tiffany Insider, a gallery of images and videos that Tiffany says "captures the excitement and creativity behind photo shoots, dressing stars in Tiffany diamonds and unveiling windows that invite the imagination to dream of elegant new worlds"; and Tiffany In Style, which covers events and introduces designs in jewelry and accessories, along with advertising images and videos."

"The resulting collection on Lightbox, Time's photography blog, was "one of the most popular galleries we've ever done," says Pollack, and it was responsible for 13% of all the site's traffic during a week when Time.com had its fourth-biggest day ever. Time's Instagram account attracted 12,000 new followers during a 48-hour period."

Bravo today announced a Connected TV app to unite viewers and advertisers with "Top Chef" and other popular shows on the second screen. Features include: Videos (Discovery, Playlist) Show Schedule Episode Descriptions Photo Galleries Polls & Games "Bravolebrities" Profiles New Content Inbox Social Sharing

Artist Doug Aitken's latest project, Station to Station: A Nomadic Happening, puts art and innovation on railway tracks by transforming a train into a travelling art studio that is set to run cross country from New York to San Francisco. http://stationtostation.com

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(The narrator sounds like he should be reading "T'was the Night Before Christmas" or something.) The app interacts with the catalog to display short films and photo galleries, among other things, related to the merchandise.

"Originally called Pinfluencer, Piqora was one of the first companies to offer Pinterest insights before Pinterest launched an analytics tool of its own. Its other customers include Sephora, Zappos, Etsy, Z Gallerie, Orbitz, and Steve Madden. Using an image recognition-based algorithm, Piqora can surface brand-related hashtags, images, and links from the three top visual networks, where keywords aren't enough. Hashtag-tracking technology is especially important on Instagram, where Piqora says brands have seven times more hashtags than they have followers."

Interesting to see the level of something so seemingly rudimentary taken to the next level. 

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Former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne, among others, will be part of a "Social Media" exhibit that goes up next month at the Pace Gallery in New York.