As part of the No Tickets Left Behind Act signed by Barack Obama, TicketNetwork has now been added to our listings. Enjoy!

Today I am incredibly excited to get yet another task off of my long list announce a new feature: The initial launch of user accounts! Admittedly, the feature list is a bit sparse (check out the registration page for a list), but we have BIG plans for this feature and I’d like to go over the initial 2.5 we’re offering right now:

Alert Management

If you create a ticket alert whilst logged into the site, that alert will be associated with your user account. You may then visit your alerts dashboard to delete or edit said alerts. How is this useful? Well, if you decide you want to change something about an alert you can do it from that page rather than having to create a whole new one. Time is money, so we’re saving you money here! Also, you can delete them. And they fade off the page, like a ghost. OOoooohh! That’s my best ghost impression, so f– moving on!

Custom Locations

Your location dashboard allows you to add and delete custom locations. Add a single location to override the automated location we pick for you when showing upcoming events. Add multiple locations, and choose between them when visiting the “upcoming” pages. We plan to make these locations more useful in the future, but for now they should primarily be useful for those of you who’s locations are not determined properly (maybe like the person who sent us feedback e-mail that said, simply, “IT NOT WORK FOR ME.” We wish it would have worked. For you.)

Additionally, the location dashboard provides convenient links to search for and see upcoming events around your chosen areas. Money saved, yet again!

Recommendations

We are psyched to start providing custom recommendations for events you may enjoy, hopefully as frighteningly accurate as Amazon, but first we need to collect data on your event-going habits. By creating an account, logging in, and using the site as you normally would, you will be helping us collect the data necessary to give you recommendations in the near future. Don’t worry – we aren’t going to share your viewing habits with anyone, unless you want us to!

Well, that’s all for now boys and girls. Until next time, don’t forget your booties ’cause it’s cooooooold out there today!

Things have been a bit crazy around here recently, so I apologize for the late update. This week, we have a couple of minor additions for you. Firstly, select ticket providers’ listings are now updated in realtime. This means we go out and get fresh listings for them whenever you load a listings page. This process gives more up-to-date information at the expense of slightly increased load times.

Secondly, we now have “venue pages” which, for the moment, simply supply a list of events which are happening at the venue. You can find links to these pages on the homepage, search results, and other places where events are listed. Just click on the venue name (it’s underlined!) and you’ll be sent to the venue’s page. In the future we will be updating these pages with more information, such as address and driving directions.

Finally, we’ve had to disabled the new interactive venue maps for now. Hopefully we will be able to go into why in the future (as well as re-enable them), but for now I will only say that disabling them highly irritated us and was not done as a result of any issue on our end. In any case, we hope this doesn’t adversely affect you finding tickets through the site in the future.

As of yesterday, we added RazorGator back to our active providers and tripled the number of StubHub tickets we list. Enjoy!

In this week’s edition of Map Monday we turn to the ice as we’re introducing 12 NHL arenas (10 were spawned during our first Map Monday). Unfortunately, my knowledge of NHL arenas and teams (this season) isn’t very extensive. To make up for the dearth of one-liners associated with each venue, I’ve included a video of the best NHL hit of the season below. Also, Alex Ovechkin > Sidney Crosby. Don’t worry, I’ll have plenty of jokes for the MLB version of Map Monday especially if I can convince my unemployed/homeless friend Bolden to help out. Now let’s meet the stars:

BankAtlantic Center – Florida Panthers

Bell Centre – Montreal Canadiens

Honda Center – Anaheim Ducks

HP Pavilion At San Jose Arena – San Jose Sharks

HSBC Arena – Buffalo Sabres

Joe Louis Arena – Detroit Red Wings (TicketStumbler’s team of choice)

Mellon Arena – Pittsburgh Penguins

Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum – New York Islanders

Nationwide Arena – Columbus Blue Jackets

Prudential Center – New Jersey Devils

Scotiabank Place – Ottawa Senators

Sommet Center – Nashville Predators