That’s not what I was thinking.
As an architecture student, I think it can be interesting to see how many hours I spend drawing, rendering, photoshopping, … the days before a final presentation. I think of Wakoopa as a basic time-tracking app.

Jumping on a bandwagon I feel….

Techcrunch has published an article about a Dutch Web 2.0 start-up called Wakoopa. So, what’s interesting about this? Well, the site isn’t even up yet (clicking the link just takes you to a countdown that expires in about 2 days), but they …

But if the tracker was actually aware of the semantics of my application usage, it could be really useful. For example, if I’m often editing CSS code in a general-purpose text editor, it could recommend a specialized CSS editor to me, preferably even one whose interface is similar to another application I’m often using (and thusly easy to learn for me) or made by a company whose other software I’m often using. This could really be a boon to the average user, too.

If this makes it easy and secure for them to do it, they won’t need advertising which presumably will only be used on the consumer version.

One more thing: wakoopa?? What does that mean? Your logo confuses me more. However, on second thought I think it has more to do with Nick Gonzalez’ writing style here. Sorry Nick, but not everyone knows what Last.fm is. If you are going to use a long analogy to start an article make it something more universal, or at least relevant. I overlooked this article 3 times before I finally read it, just because I didn’t care about this new music site called Wakoopa.

For apps alone, it seems pretty useless since one can already guesstimate the rough figures based on the major download sites anyway.

Last.fm does for music what Dutch startup Wakoopa wants to do for your desktop applications. Like Last.fm, Wakoopa uses a downloaded tracker, except if follows how often you use applications instead of listen to music. Similarly, Wakoopa has also built…

I appreciate your candor. I think you are being smart and sincere. Have you thought about adapting your business model to provide billing support to services companies (legal, consulting, accounting, contract-software creation)?

A lot of these companies have complex software to help them bill hourly, but you could provide analytics to their clients on exactly what programs are being used and this may help:

A) The service firm increase billable hours
B) The client gain greater insight into what’s going on.

Just a thought. Good luck my friend.

The problem only exists when Techcrunch writes positively about stuff that they do not really like. In this case, I’ not the one to judge about it.

In this case, the link is clear: Michael Arrington knows Boris from Fleck very well (and he is in fact speaking at his conference for a nice sum), therefore Boris (who is shareholder in Wakopa) gets to plug articles into Techcrunch, but Techcrunch is still the one to decide how to write about stuff (pos or neg). Like I said, thats the way publishing works.

Now back to discussion about Wakoopa itself.

That sounds big, but to detail this: in total less than 50.000 was invested in this company.

If this then uses APML.org to structure the data it will make is shareable in a standard format. Not everyone will want to know what I use but some of my friends will. This reminds me of the OPMLshare service started by Dave Winer.