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How could Google and Yahoo score come-from-behind upset victories in the social networking war? By enlisting their email systems (and all those users, and all those address books) into the battle. Maybe. The New York Times says this is happening. TechCrunch thinks this is a sad idea; GigaOm thinks it’s brilliant. You decide.

The Wall Street Journal is now embedding Digg links on its pages. Could this mean an acquisition is brewing?

If so, this guy may not be around to see it happen.

Europe’s antitrust poobahs continue their rampage by consigning Google’s Doubleclick acquisition to regulatory purgatory.

Meanwhile Fark plays Jeopardy.

Miro 1.0 launches the first post-beta version of its online video player. Crave thinks it’s come a long way.

Not be left out of the video party, Bebo has opened its doors to professional video creators - and is actually allowing them to earn a living (YouTube take note).

ParisLemon thinks that roughly 2/3 of the people taking in that video will be women.

Poor R2D2 (or is it pour, R2D2) - what a rough way to make a living.

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