The report shows the quarterly data for desktop software, games and web apps. The data comes from the over 75,000 Wakoopa users that have installed the desktop tracking software to enable the company to see actual usage. These users have logged over 525 million hours of app usage, across over 200,000 apps.

Some key trends that Wakoopa highlights in its report include:

• Social networking usage tends to peak between 9 and 10 PM. But for Facebook, the most popular social network, usage is pretty constant throughout the day.
• Other web apps tend to peak at between 4 and 5 PM.
• As you may expect, Twitter usage is rising quickly among Wakoopa users as well. Nearly a quarter of them now use the service — and most of them do so through Twitter desktop clients.
• Google Friend Connect and the online video site Veoh both showed large declines in usage in the first quarter. Interestingly, and perhaps not entirely unrelated, Veoh just went through layoffs and a major restructuring. Google Friend Connect meanwhile, seems to lack the hype and adoption of Facebook’s more popular Facebook Connect.
• Google Chrome is growing quickly, and is now past 15% usage across all Wakoopa users.

But some of Wakoopa’s charts in the report contain even more interesting information. For example, while Chrome has an impressive showing across the board, Mozilla’s Firefox browser is even more impressive. It is the number one app on both Windows and Mac platforms. And in every continent besides Africa, it’s over 60% usage among web browsers — and in Africa it’s still at 50%.

Meanwhile, Africa is the only continent where Internet Explorer finishes as the second most-used browser. On every other continent,  IE is in third place among browsers — or worse. While that may sounds a bit ridiculous given that IE is still by far the biggest browser worldwide in terms of market share, that has to be very troubling for Microsoft as it’s probably safe to assume that a lot of Wakoopa users are early adopters of technology and could signal a trend of where things could go for the general population in the coming years.

Also not a good sign for Microsoft: The older you are, the more likely you are to use IE. In the youngest age group, 11 to 20 year olds, even smaller browsers like Opera beat it. IE has been losing market share at a steady pace for the past several years.

Google products dominate the top-used web apps. Gmail is #2, YouTube is #3, Google Search is #4 and Google Reader is #5. It seems pretty surprising that YouTube and Gmail would be ahead of Google Search, but perhaps that’s because people use their built-in search toolbars rather than Google.com to start searches. Also, a commenter Kyle notes below, Wakoopa tracks how long your stay on a site as well, so you’re more likely to stay on Gmail and YouTube longer than Google Search. Regardless, Facebook trumps them all.

On Windows machines, a lot of Microsoft products appear in the top 10, which on Macs, a lot of Apple products do. That is not at all shocking.

FriendFeed usage is more than halfway to Twitter usage — though it’s not clear if that’s just Twitter.com or if that includes the various clients as well. And FriendFeed’s usage is higher among Wakoopa users than that of MySpace. Again, I’d point back to the whole early adopter thing.

DestroyTwitter — which I had never even heard of until tonight, is one of the hottest new apps on both the Windows and Mac platforms. Apparently, it’s an Adobe AIR-based Twitter client that constantly updates, yet uses less memory than other AIR-based Twitter clients.

It’s interesting that email peak checking time for the weekday is during the morning, around 11 AM, but on the weekend, it’s at night around 9 PM.

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The team behind Wakoopa, a social network that tracks and shares information about the desktop applications used by its members, noticed that Firefox and Safari were consistently ranked as the network’s top two applications by usage. So they took this as a cue to start measuring web apps in addition to desktop apps, since their data confirm (at least among the developer types drawn to its service) what we already know anecdotally: that web apps are slowly replacing desktop apps.

Starting today, sites like Flickr will be listed as software programs alongside traditional desktop apps like Photoshop. And if you check out a user’s profile page, such as co-founder Robert Gaal’s, you’ll see sites like Scribd and Gmail ranked alongside Adium and iTunes.

Wakoopa faces a bit of a challenge when it comes to defining, and then identifying, web apps. Virtually all websites could be considered web apps, but the line has to be drawn somewhere for practical purposes (Picnik is undoubtedly a web app but your cousin’s GeoCities page clearly is not). Wakoopa has decided to leverage our very own CrunchBase API to make the distinction, since most of the sites in CrunchBase meet the relevant criteria.

How important is this new functionality to Wakoopa’s success? It may turn out to be one of the most important product decisions the company makes. Gaal himself says that he “wouldn’t be surprised if [they] end up only tracking online software in the future.”

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Wakoopa, the application monitoring service that we’ve described as a Last.fm for desktop apps, has raised $1 million in a funding round led by Big Bang Ventures and HENQ Invest.

Wakoopa monitors the amount of time each application is open on a user’s desktop (or iPhone), and uses the aggregated data to create a social network. The site also serves as an application database that can be used to look up general information or reviews.

Wakoopa launched in May 2007 and has grown to 30,000 users that that have generated 250 million hours of software usage data. The site has compiled the data to create Alexa-like graphs, though most of the data is highly biased towards the tech-savvy.

RescueTime is a similar offering in this space, but it is geared more towards improving productivity than discovering new useful applications. You can see a recent analysis we did on their data here.

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While there are obvious privacy concerns (addressed here), over 17,000 people have signed up for the service (no word on downloads). The site draws half a million people each month to profiles for over 70,000 applications they track on Mac, PC and even the iPhone. To date, they’ve tracked about 110 million hours of software usage. Firefox is the top ranked app, with over half a million hours of use.

All this usage has generated some pretty interesting data that Wakoopa is now exposing through new Alexa-like graphs. Although Wakoopa will be officially launching the graphing feature tomorrow, TechCrunch readers can get access now by just adding “?techcrunch=true” to any URL(example). Like Alexa, the graphs show the relative rank and reach (% usage) of an application amongst their sample population. By first quarter next year, they’ll allow comparisons of up to 5 applications and embedding.

Granted, the sample population is pretty geeky. The current data reveals some kind of alternate universe where Firefox’s superior browser has finally usurped Explorer’s majority market share (see below). Yet even though it may be biased, the data gives a previously unseen look at highly valuable information about how we use our computers. For instance, Wakoopa has found Tuesday is the day users play games the least. They also found women spend twice as much time in Photoshop than men.

The team’s moving from Amsterdam to the valley next year, and I look forward to seeing what else they have planned for the product.

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Wakoopa’s tracker logs what applications you use and for how long, updating your personal profile every 15 minutes. On the website, the aggregate data lists the most recently used applications and most used applications of all time. Each application has a profile that lists the people and groups who use it, reviews, and tags. For free applications, it also includes a download link for various versions, potentially creating a more social SourceForge. For the private beta, Firefox is the top used application, used by 23 people logging over 117 hours. MSN messenger is an odd second place, logging a total of 14 hours.

Since raving about desktop applications doesn’t have the same mass market appeal of music, I can’t see it breaking out of the developer community unless the tracker is bundled with some really attractive freebies.

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