Andrew Nesbitt’s recenty improved Tickets describes itself as ‘a mixture of a tumblelog, a todo list and a status notifier’ and goes onto to list a bunch of more popular uses.

Tickets are, in essence, notes which are displayed in a format similar to a microblog.

Users have the option to make public or private tickets. Those who make their tickets public might be using the site for microblogging purposes (or indeed note sharing) whilst those who keep their notes private are more likely to be using it for small-scale software/web development.

Design-wise, Tickets is superb. Utilising a nice blue gradient as a background (through the good old repeat-x technique as opposed to radical ones like the all-CSS gradient background) and content is tastefully displayed in a white box! Simple but effective!

I love how Tickets gives you so much flexibility and you don’t feel like you have to conform to a specific use for it!

I must admit that whilst for quite a while I have been objected to microblogging I am getting more and more tempted by it. I would choose Tickets as it allows you to make quite lengthy posts and include such things as code in them however I would probably find myself over on Twitter because of the existing large userbase.

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