Tweetmic is a new iPhone app that allows you to upload audio to Twitter. I guess you’d call it ‘Tweetcasting’?

Slowed down by all that time consuming typing and spell checking (it is a whole 140 characters, after all)? This app combines two things loved by almost everyone: Twitter and the sound of their own voice.

At a mere buck for the app and unlimited unrestricted uploads, Tweetmic could be on every iPhone and iPod touch very soon.

Twitter is text. Podcasts are audio. Twitter and the people that love it are flexible, but will Tweetmic bend the relationship just too far?

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Good.ly is an intriguing and unusual URL shorterner with a charitable difference.

Social network junkies that have a Mother-Tereasa-like bent may be very interested in this service.

Good.ly has several things going for it, namely a sustainable business model, a diverse affiliate network and, importantly, the warm fuzzy feeling that you get from giving.

URL shorteners are the soup-du-jour at the moment, and good.ly’s kryptonite will undoubtedly be competition and user choice. We also need to ask: is good.ly doing a good enough job of establishing an easily understood identity and message for itself?

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Loop11 is all about evaluating your website’s usability. Set tasks and questions for your users and evaluate their actual experience.

Anyone that has a website that wants to optimise the user’s experience will be VERY interested in this startup. I feel that exorbitantly priced “usability consultants” will not be as enamoured - Loop11 will undoubtedly steal much of their business.

There is big money in optimising a website’s usability these days. This beautiful little app will be featuring on the biggest to the smallest websites in the weeks to come.

Although Loop11 still has some work to do delivering a quicker user experience, this has all the trademarks of a killer app.

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Install Clixpy to your website and watch exactly what your visitors do once they’ve found you. Think “usability testing” rather than “stalking”.

If you listen closely, you can hear SEO-pros and website usability enthusiats the world over drooling all over their keyboards.

As long as the Clixpy servers are up for the task, this offers a solution that up to now was expensive, difficult to access and involved - the horror - of dealing with people.

While pros will find this a godsend, I can see amateurs spending hours watching their Clixpy captures without really knowing what to do next. Cue maddening decline into insanity.

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