This week I wanted to tell you about a neat little website that I came across recently.  I would tell you how I found it but I don’t remember.  It may have been one of the many emails which I have received from readers.  I appreciate your emails so keep them coming with comments about columns, suggestions about sites or software you like and plain old questions.  I appreciate them all!

I am not a real fan of social networking, which I have mentioned in this column many times in the past.  But this is a different type of network - it is a software network.  No one tells you what they think about life, their jobs, their other halves and thank goodness, politics.

Wakoopa (wakoopa.com) is a little strange sounding word as it trips off of your tongue but the site is something that I have never thought of.  How would you like to know what software other people are using?  This is sort of what the name means according to the developers blog site (blog.wakoopa.com); Where - All - Kinds - Of - Original - Programs - Appear.

Take a visit to Wakoopa and see what shows up.  I imagine the first thing you will notice is an area near the top where many different icons are scrolling past.  These are the most recently used software applications according to the tracking information installed on users computers…like mine. 

Below that you will see, “Most used software” which indicates Firefox as number one.  When you click on the Firefox link you will read, “Used by 11,778 people for 596523 hours, 14 minutes and 7 seconds”.  Internet Explorer (www.Microsoft.com/IE7) is ranked second with 10,911 people for over 173,764, of which I am one.  And the list goes on, like my favorite browser, Maxthon is ranked 40th.  I need to install that on my new computer and get its numbers up, yeah right.

Once at a specific software’s page you see the overview, versions (interesting but not really useful), Reviews (my favorite regarding software I have never used), Users (see who is using the software) and Teams (people who are related in some way and the software that they use, for instance there is one called, “Slovakia” which states, “The official Slovak team! If you are a Slovak, or live in Slovakia, come and join us!”)
 
If you care to, drop by my Wakoopa page at “wakoopa.com/elyod” and see what software I have running on my system.

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