Well the 1.8 fork is going really well so far, with 43.5% of nodes updated within 4 days of the release, and ~two weeks to go. That gives us AuxPoW so we're not conflicting with Litecoin for Scrypt hashrate.

Oh, and proper integration with Twitch is nearly here (finally): http://dcmagnates.com/dogetipbot-coming-to-twitch-brings-dogecoin-tipping-55-million-viewers/