Google Social Search Dead?

Is Google's vaunted real-time social search mechanism, which lets users search blogs and social content from their group of friends, dead, or am I just not cool enough to have access to it anymore?

Wait, don't answer that.

Facebook for iPhone, I Hate You

Hey there, current and future Facebook event planners; here's a little PSA for ya.  Last night, I had the unfortunate experience of learning that Facebook for iPhone is seriously flawed (at least in the most up-to-date version as of this writing) when it comes to posting accurate event listings.

Last night, I threw the Nickelodeon-tribute-to-end-all-Nickelodeon-tributes in Long Island City, NY, using Facebook to circulate the invite.  If you checked into Facebook on the Web, you would've seen it started at 6 p.m. and went until 10 p.m. EST.

But if you accessed the event via the Facebook for iPhone app... well, it would've time-shifted the event by 3 friggin' hours (9 p.m. to 1 a.m.). 

I haven't seen a good explanation for this online, but it's clear that there's some bizarre time zone stuff going on in the FB app.  Be warned.

Maybe the Droid folks should be spinning this as an advantage for its barebones Facebook Lite app.

Bite-Sized Songs: Anodyne

So I didn't go outside on this beautiful, 90-degree day, but I did record this odd, 30-second song snippet.

Twitter + Poop = TwttrPoop

I don't know why I did it.

I don't know why I spent so many late nights researching the common, colloquial phrases people assign to their bowel movements.

I don't know what possessed me to learn Twitter's API rules inside and out in the service of a search engine dedicated to tracking and analyzing the number of people using the service to publicly talk about... pooping.

And I'm still not sure how I convinced my friends, like Willis Lambert, an unbelievable designer, and David Fishman and Will Braunstein into donating their time and financial resources to making this... thing... real.

But here we are: TwttrPoop is live.

Every 24 hours, about 3,500 tweets are sent out, each referencing someone's most recent release. For reference, that's generally more than Twitter users talk about:

• AIDS (As of 7/24, 12:18 PM EST, 2060 tweets)
• Iraq (As of 7/24, 12:19 PM EST, 2109 tweets)
• Oprah (As of 7/24, 12:20 PM EST, 2308 tweets)

For what it's worth.

We built TwttrPoop to become the world's ultimate resource for gathering and transforming previously taboo-laden data into something useful.  Think of it as the software equivalent of this:

Enjoy the site.

Sweet, Twitter-Dispensed Justice.

In the past 24 hours, more people tweeted about going to the bathroom than about Oprah, Ashton Kutcher and Diddy.  Seems about right.

(via TwttrPoop)