Off the Shelf

http://wakoopa.com/

What a fun little app! Total invasion of private software time…however, very, very interesting.

Below is a embeddable widget from the site listing all the software I am currently 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 other 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”