Sunday, October 5, 2008

New to me Social Software Pt. I - Wakoopa!

http://wakoopa.com/

What a fun little app! Total invasion of personal time...however, very, very interesting. 

Software tracking

Above is a embedable widget from the site listing all the software I am curretnly running on my PC. Wow! Pretty scary when you think about it. Right now I am just trying to understand the benefits of something like this, or rather the social software benefits of this. Here are some of my initial thoughts.
  • discover new software via your contacts
  • see what people are doing
  • see how you spend your time
Also from a software development/use standpoint, there is lots of usage statistics that can be harvested. For example they have this quote on the website:
"Did you know communicating is the second biggest activity on the computer? We do. Wakoopa knows software" 

What do you guys think?

2 comments:

Renee said...

Hmm... I'd have to think long and hard before using this one. I wouldn't be able to delude myself about my productivity any longer! I think it's definitely social-oriented: see what pgms my "friends" use and then download them. Interesting. Thanks for posting.

ljscils598f08 said...

Don't you already know what apps you are using?? LOL

I can see the benefit of this because it sends you notices/updates on software that you like. That would be helpful. I also like that they have a database of applications that you can browse to find the right app for the right job! That would be useful.