Wakoopa the Next Slifeshare? How they Stack Up.

                Wakoopa is a recently launched service that will track the software you use on your computer. Wakoopa is a community, so this information can be shared.

The purpose of making this information social is to offer recommendations, comments, hints and tips regarding the software you use every day. Wakoopa will alert you when someone has written about the software you use, and when a new version of the software is released. You can share your own experiences with various applications, and read others' to find out what will work best for you.

That being said, Wakoopa acts as a community-based software directory, complete with a section of developers, and filters to find the most popular, recently used, the latest versions and the latest comments, to name a few. Your software usage can also be shared with their widget and exported to your MySpace profile. Wakoopa does offer a Javascript widget as well.

While you can join Wakoopa with no strings attached and peruse the site, you must download their application in order to track your software. They do have a Windows and a Mac version, unlike Slife which tracks all your computer behavior on Macs only. As this is a recommendation system as well as a community, I like that you can subscribe to other users' recently used software and their comments on various products.

The target user for Wakoopa is pretty niche, but I think they could provide a unique marketing platform should their business model include ad revenue, and generally helpful overall, as they provide a resource for software information.

Wakoopa vs. Slifeshare

So how does it stack up to Slife? It depends on what your purposes are.

Slife will track everything on your computer, letting you know how many minutes you spent on a particular website, whereas Wakoopa tracks the software you use.

Slifeshare also lets your friends see what you've been doing, but they offer far more graphical data regarding your activity, whereas Wakoopa collects information for recommendation purposes.

Slife is promoted as a way to help you organize yourself, and Wakoopa will help you find the best software for you.

Both services could incorporate many of each others features, and it may be easier for Slife to do so, as they've gotten a jump start on the data collection phase.

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