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A little chutzpah goes a long way, but this is chutzpah bordering on comical grandiosity. The existence of uSocial.net (sorry, kid, no linking) is audacious enough: The site offers a Digg.com gaming service (StumbleUpon and Propeller, too), where clients can pay to have submissions linking to their website voted up on Digg. But wait until we get to the press release about it—then things get really good.

 MySpace has launched a widget designed on the new Widget Channel TV application framework being  co-developed by Intel and Yahoo!.

One, among many, things can be said about Google: The company has taken punches from some pretty powerful hitters and has not gone away. The drama that has played out over the years has lived up to its hype and shows no sign of falling curtains. The drama will just get grander actually, as Google encroaches on the territories of more empires.

Compared to most of the past month, today was a pretty uneventful day for Google’s stock (it gained $7.57).  As such, now seems as good a time as any to take a deep breath, sit back, and consider where it might go in the future.

Amidst rumors that Google has pulled ahead of Microsoft in the race to buy a portion of Facebook, Google News now has its own Facebook application.

EBay has entered the crowded social networking space with an ecommerce twist it calls eBay Neighborhoods. These neighborhoods enable people to connect with others who share their passions for certain products or topics.

Never mind that, at their closest tips, Canada and Europe are over 1,500 miles apart; in Yahoo’s mind, they’re pretty much one and the same.

When I first wrote about Google Australia’s Doodle 4 Google contest, I thought it was a nice idea - “nice idea” meaning a warm-fuzzies PR initiative that not a lot of people would notice.  But people are noticing, and a new post on the Official Google Australia Blog quantifies the matter.