We’re happy to announce that the Rodeo Austin events site launched this week, just in time for rodeo tickets to go on sale! The events site maintains the new look and feel that we designed for their year round heritage site, with added features so visitors can explore event information and buy tickets through a quick, friendly shopping process.

On the main event page, you’ll see featured Rodeo Austin events, with the option to view a list of all upcoming activities. You can sort by type and recommendation, and even create your own event schedule. Events can be posted to Facebook and Twitter, or they can be emailed to friends via custom e-cards. Want to hear a song by an upcoming entertainer? You can do that, too!

Check it out here:www.RodeoAustin.com.

The new year has come and somehow already gone and some of us are still reeling over how quickly time is passing by.  But with each new year comes the inevitable lists recounting "The Top <insert anything you can imagine>" of the past year, decade, millennium, etc.  I personally enjoy these lists as they help me recall all the events that have happened in my life that seemed monumental as they were occurring yet had somehow slipped my memory before being immortalized in a year-end list.  Of course, some of my favorite lists from 2009 were related to everyone’s activity on the internet over the past year.  Lists from facebook recounting the top status update terms and from Bing showing us their top search terms for the year, seem like a pretty accurate gauge for determining what we cared most about and wanted to learn more about in 2009. 

Any predictions for top terms in 2010?

Yesterday, eMarketer published comScore's results for 2009 ecommerce spending during the holiday season. The months of November and December saw a great change from 2008, with sales increasing by 4%.

The top five US holiday ecommerce spending days were:

1. Tuesday, December 15 ($913 million)
2. Cyber Monday, November 30 ($887 million)
3. Tuesday, December 1 ($886 million)
4. Wednesday, December 16 ($874 million)
5. Monday, December 14 ($854 million)

eMarketer also notes that mobile sales increased during the holidays, with eBay reporting three times the number of mobile sales than in 2008. Increased holiday sales in the ecommerce and mobile commerce realms point toward a positive outlook for online shopping in 2010. View the full report here.