Now how did Friday go and sneak up on me again? Am I the only one whose week just flew by? At any rate, here’s another round-up of interesting and informative news from around the web. Oh yes… it’s Link Love Friday!

Think MySpace is the social networking king? Well… it might be (unfortunately). But not in a place that historically knows a little more than we in The States do about kings - The U.K. According to reports from comScore, Bebo - not MySpace - is the most visited social network in The United Kingdom. Now if you look at the numbers, we’re talking about a 500 person difference here… so it’s not a huge lead. But it just goes to show that, despite what we like to think, the U.S. doesn’t always have the best taste (come on people… MySpace is just awful).

Speaking of social things, Valleywag is reporting that Fark founder Drew Curtis has accused Darrell Phillips - a new media manager for a Fox News station in Memphis, Tennessee - of attempted hacking. Oh yes… hacking. According to Curtis, IPs matching Phillips’ have been up to all kinds of bizarre behavior, including sending bogus emails with trojans attached in an attempt to gain employee-level access to the system. I’m not sure why anyone would go to such trouble to get into Fark. VW has some theories, though.

comScore also published a list of the top 50 web properties rankings for July. Burger King had an amazing 774% increase in unique visitors during the month. Are they running a Whopper sale or something?? Oh wait… no… it’s The Simpson’s Movie. So nothing really to do with actual Burger King food. I guess that goes to show that partnerships really can have a big impact on your traffic!

Facebook, arguably one of the hottest properties on the net, must be thrilled by the news that TripAdvisor just spent $3 million on one of the social network’s apps - Where I’ve Been. TripAdvisor is denying the report. I’d deny it, too. $3 million for one Facebook app? All together now… let’s say this together… “RIP OFF”.

American Airlines is making the news rounds today on reports that the company has filed suit against Google. American Airlines problem is that Google doesn’t stop other people from bidding on their trademarked keywords. Hopefully they’re upset about words other than “American” and “Airlines”… because those are such unique keywords, ya know? Anyone else notice that suing Google has become a new international past time?

Since we’re on the topic of Google, I found a Hitwise report on the popularity of YouTube interesting as well. According to their data, there’s a strong negative correlation between searches for funny videos and YouTube. As searches for YouTube go up, searches for funny videos goes down. What I don’t understand, though, is why people aren’t just going to YouTube. I mean… if you know the name of the site… why not just go to it? Surely they can’t be forgetting the URL…

And yet another week comes to an end. I can’t remember the last time 5 days seemed to fly by so quickly! Until Monday… have a great weekend, folks…