Well, it’s late on Friday, which is a horrible time to make this release, especially when I’ve been at work almost an hour extra for the second day in a row. However, I do like my job - the one thatÂ? pays me and this one -Â? and I’m a trooper, so here it is.

1. MySpace (officially)Â? debuts Google Search - As mentioned in the article, the Google logo has been appearing at times on the website, but it seems this has finally been made official. $900 million Google-bucks will soon tell us that MySpace is nowhere near as big as everyone thinks.

2. Yahoo to Launch Brand Sites - I’ll let the article do the talking (2 for Pete this week, nice!). Basically, Yahoo! is leveraging its userbase and providing a reason to spend your entire online life on their properties. Why bother with MySpace fan pages, News groups, or any other third party service when Yahoo! has one of the best, if not the best, network of third party services that is integrated not only with their own kick-ass properties, but also with your account? Check out the Wii portal.

3. Wal-mazon - Throw in the acquisition of Fedex and Verizon, and suddenly we have everything we’ve ever wanted from Big Box Mart! Check out this post about Amazon’s new service, too.

4. Zoho Launches MS Office Plug-inÂ? - Google is already pretty far into their online office apps to grab Zoho, and I’m not sure if it makes sense, but maybe Microsoft should consider it, but again, I always have to mention Yahoo!

5. Yahoo and Google - Two different posts about the companies: one about the closing of Google’s Answers while Yahoo! Answers thrives, and another about a lawsuit between the two companies over Google’s Book Search.

Honourable mention - never heard much about it, and really want to get home at this point, but this doesn’t seem like freedom of speech in the blogosphere.

Runner up mention - Multi-million dollar Homepage…. …

Note: Normally I’d try and find a wider range of sources for these 5 items, but it is definitely home time, so you’re stuck with a one-dimensional (or at least limited) review of the week’s events.

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