Wakoopa: Software Social Network, Where Privacy Takes a Back Seat!

Nov 11, 2008 by Abbas

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Wakoopa Wakoopa is an interesting service which brings together people who want to share and discover new and useful softwares, web applications and system utilities.

This service is certainly _not_ for the faint of hearts or for users who have something to hide on their machines. Wakoopa is a sophisticate social networking which connects users by tracking their applications usage behavior. The fact that wakoopa is gaining popularity and has close to 6,000 users using Wakoopa tracker shows that the word “Privacy” is taking a whole new meaning.

Once registered, login to Wakoopa and download Wakoopa tracker. This tracker sits on your computer and watches every possible application that is running on your computer, not only that, it also keeps a track of web applications like Gmail, Youtube, Ebay, Amazon, etc.. Any online service which can be termed as a replacement of a typical desktop application can be categorized as a web applications.

The site also displays list of applications currently running on Waakoopians (Wakoopa Users) machines. The list is constantly updated using the data received from the Wakoopa tracker installed on user machines.

The tracker stores the data even if the users are not connected to the internet, but once connected the tracker then sends all the stored data to the site. All the data stored in tracker is lost when the computer is restarted.

Wakoopa maintains a software profile of each user and a user list of every software. Users can rate and review the software’s on the list.

Here is what you will see on my profile

Wakoopa Syed Abbas Profile

Syed Abbas Wakoopa Profile Graph

Site also maintains a list of the top users based on their activities. Users can improve the “levels” assigned to them by performing certain tasks and gaining points.
Following is the list of levels that are assigned to each user

Wakoopa User Levels

Following is the points chart:

Wakoopa Points System

Lot of valuable information is being collected by Wakoopa. The snippets of information displayed at the bottom of each page shows how this information can be used to analyze user behavior.

Following are a few snippets I picked up from few page refresh

Wakoops Info Snippet

That’s sweet isn’t it? So, don’t be afraid of sharing your application information with millions of people on the internet and learn at the same time.