Posted by Erica McGillivray Holy smokes, I don't think our product and development teams have slept since Thanksgiving; they're probably really dreaming of figgy pudding with all the new features they've been creating. These four features: universal search, historical link metrics, custom reports, and branded keywords are definitely squee-worthy. Plus, there's a bonus that you might've not heard about yet. I realize that for you die-hard Mozzers - yes,

by Mike Krumboltz " Joyful Noise ," starring Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton , is the most popular new release in the Yahoo! search box. Queries on the film are 145% over the past week and are thisclose to breaking into our top 5,000 overall terms. Not bad for a flick about a small town gospel choir. Web searches on the film are skewing female. More than two-thirds of the queries come from the ladies. Interestingly, lookups are also skewing older.

Life moves pretty fast when you spend most of your waking hours at work. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss what's really important to you (Bueller, 1986).   Thank goodness for time saving efficient technologies and programs! Well great news! Atlas launched the Media Add-In, an Excel Add-In that allows you to manage high-volume campaign management tasks in bulk. Now isn't that a superb example of technology creating efficiencies?

Heading in to CES 2012 a topic of particular interest to the Consumer Electronic and Digital Industries is the rise of tablets and how they fit into the device ecosystem. From a publisher and marketers perspective should we treat tablets as smartphones, given they both share an app-centric engagement model? These questions and more are being tackled at the SmartPhone and Tablet Conference - Digital Hollywood CES where I was fortunate enough to attend the panel,

Cox Digital Solutions announced today that they are partnering with Yahoo in order to provide exclusive political and advocacy advertising across Yahoo properties. With 2012 being an election year in the U.S.,

Google just announced a new version of Google Search for Android 2.2 and higher. Google touts it as faster and easier to use. Go figure. Specifically, Google lists the following as the differences: Faster, smoother performance,

Kobo, makers of e-readers and e-reading apps, announced today that their sale to Rakuten has closed. Rakuten, based in Japan, is a major global marketplace, selling a wide variety of products around the world.

Twitter made it clear that it was not thrilled with Google's new "Search Plus Your World" set of personalization features very shortly after it was announced. Twitter General Counsel Alex Macgillivray tweeted: .ditto156811166738427906{background: #9AE4E8 url(http://a2.twimg.com/profile_background_images/10651977/IMG_0922-1.JPG) no-repeat;padding: 20px;} .

Phones today use rechargeable batteries, but SpareOne is bringing back the good ol' AA. At CES, XPAL Power revealed the SpareOne cell phone that can run for up to 15 years on standby mode.

A viral video is one that becomes popular through the process of Internet sharing, via social media, sharing sites, or good 'ole email.