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*Theory*, I'm not for a second suggesting this is a practical solution.

You can insert 'HTML' snippets. The example they cite Google Gadgets, where said HTML is a script tag.

So you could insert your own script tag and point it to your own javascript which does a xhr to your own server side script (php/MySQL) and then updates the page.
 
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