social-software, technology, web 2.0
Jun 16, 2008
leala
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New to me Social Software Pt. I – Wakoopa!

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”

Software tracking


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