How do you feel about someone knowing exactly what programs you use on your computer AND how long you use them? Would you willingly let someone track your software usage for free? Well the time has come for us to open up our computers and let the world know what we are using! Are you scared yet? As you know, my mission is tomake money online, and show others different ways to do the same, all while having fun. Part of that mission involves link building. During my link building efforts, I have come across a site that absolutely terrifies and intrigues me all at the same time!

 Wakoopa is a website that offers a piece of tracking software you can install on your computer that tracks the software you use on your computer and reports that usage back to Wakoopa. Allowing Wakoopa to track you offers you a variety of benefits. When updates to the software you use are available, Wakoopa notifies you. Also, Wakoopa will tell you when someone writes a review about the software you use. Wakoopa also allows you to share your software usage and your opinions about software, create a profile page and invite your friends to view it, or put a widget on your own site. The only thing you don’t get is any privacy. Maybe you will miss your privacy and maybe you won’t. Does the chance to persuade someone not to buy a piece of software intrigue you? Does the opportunity to see how real people feel about a piece of software intrigue you? Well it sure intrigues me! Now I hate to have intrusive companies trying to pry into my life only to turn around and tell others what I’m doing. However, since this is one of the ways that companies can find out what people are really using and what they need, then maybe I will let Wakoopa keep track of me like an animal in a zoo :-)!

I honestly find this application’s potential to be incredible.  The Wakoopa website offers different little tidbits of data. For instance, did you know that women spend more time in Adobe Photoshop than men? I didn’t know that and I’m a woman! Should I have known that? I don’t know, but now that I do know that I want to know more! If you stay on the Wakoopa website, you CAN know more. For instance, I found out another tidbit of info - Did you know World of Warcraft is played most on Sunday, and least on Tuesday? According to Wakoopa, they know this because they know software! I think this company is going to be an absolutely INCREDIBLE resource for businesses that are trying to launch new products or find out statistics on current products - if their results are accurate.  Since they are directly tracking the applications that people are using, I would assume that they are accurate ;-).

Here are a few more interesting ‘did you know’ items taken directly from the Wakoopa website. If you want to see them for yourself, visit the website and look in the lower right corner.

• Did you know people browse 7 times longer with Firefox then Internet Explorer? We do. Wakoopa knows software.
• Did you know communicating is the second biggest activity on the computer? We do. Wakoopa knows software.
• Did you know the average computer user has 54 pieces of software? We do. Wakoopa knows software.

Here is PureBlogic's page on Wakoopa. Of course, the benefit to us is that we can establish yet another handy dandy link so the PageRank gods will love us.

I think this company is going to be a tremendous resource as they accumulate more data. This is one company that I can honestly see Google either taking over or emulating in the future. The idea is so smart and the implementation for the end-user is so simple that I am sure that they are going to revolutionize the way data is collected and used. The fact that they are honest about the fact that they are tracking you kind of makes you feel secure in a weird sort of way. I mean, can these developers be bad if they tell you up front that they are collecting your information? ;-)

Take a look at Wakoopa and see how you feel about it. You may be witnessing the next big thing in friendly-big-brother data collection.

Posted By Kila Morton

 

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