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Social Discovery Client.

for Facebook lets users easily filter updates from friends, create custom feeds, and block game spam

Feeds can be saved and organized.

Gucci will allow anyone to sign up to watch its show online, and will let viewers share live Webcam videos as though they were playing with YouTube. Alexander Wang is projecting video of its show on a “moving billboard” in Manhattan, and Betsey Johnson is showing live Web versions of the show and the backstage frenzy before it. And in the most aggressive outreach, Burberry, the British design house, will not only stream its women’s runway show live from London, but also will allow anyone with a computer and a credit card to order the merchandise as models strut in it.

It fuses traditional arts, digital electronics, interactivity, and data scraping with contemporary art. It is a new media canvas, woven from information, using fiber optic thread to carry information and data from the internet in the form of light.

The 50 Different Minds is an innovative project that uses hand woven fiber optics as a canvas to display live data scraped from Twitter feeds and flight arrivals and departures from the 9 busiest airports around the world. Particular terms trigger different patterns and colors within the fabric

The number of people using location-based services like Foursquare and Gowalla remains small, and does not appear to be growing, according to a report published Thursday by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.

On any given day, 1 percent of adult Americans use a service that allows them to share their location, according to the report. Four percent of adult Internet users use location-based services at all, down from 5 percent of Internet users who said they used such services in May. Only 6 percent of people who use social networking sites also used location-based services.

The Pew report notes how quickly technologies like these can go from obscurity to mainstream use. In August 2008, for example, 6 percent of adults used status-updating services like Twitter. By September 2010 that proportion had quadrupled.

system for using an app on your phone to send payments to a POS system using NFC technology