Keeping score on the visitors and the interest in social networks Comscore highlighted that social networks are expanding at a phenomenal rate pointing percentage changes of 270% for Facebook from June to July. With all this connectivity and investment in time from visitors it is impressive that any work is getting done globally today.
Whilst we are wondering what the world is upto whilst facebooking it was Robert Scoble vs Techcrunch interns in a battle for popularity as they went facebook app vs facebook app. Robert however coming out in a strong lead with a Photo finish, courtesy of Kyte.tv where we see Robert posting Video comments as often as his twitters.
None of the above matters though if your last name is Gay, as Cnet News reports that Facebook was blocking profiles whose last name ends in Gay, and whilst Socialnet has not had a chance to verify the accuracy of that story we just wanted to publish it because it was too funny.
Finally Susan Reynolds spotted that the Datasharing Summit is coming up in September 7th and 8th and hopes to address the interoperability issues of joining and sharing data between social networks, lets hope openID gets its day in the sun for this one.