{"id":11215,"date":"2008-06-03T00:26:46","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T21:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=11215"},"modified":"2008-06-03T00:26:46","modified_gmt":"2008-06-02T21:26:46","slug":"wakoopa-one-of-those-things-that-i-dont-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/03\/wakoopa-one-of-those-things-that-i-dont-get\/","title":{"rendered":"Wakoopa – one of those things that I don’t get"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There are things that are as obvious as daylight.\u00a0 There are things that I need to research and think over to understand.\u00a0 And there are things that feel like I’ll never understand.\u00a0 Wakoopa<\/a> is one of them.<\/p>\n

I first heard about Wakoopa back in April when I was in Amsterdam<\/a>, at The Next Web 2008 Conference<\/a>.\u00a0 Wakoopa is a European social network that unites people who want to share the information about software they use.\u00a0 If you are one of them, all you need to do is register at the network and download client software to install on your computer.\u00a0 Once you are done, Wakoopa will track which software you use and how (often).\u00a0 It will then upload these information to the social network, where you will be able to find other people who use the same software (advice? shared experience?) as well as other software that people similar to you use (expanding horizons?).<\/p>\n

The booth of Wakoopa startup was one of the busiest at the conference.\u00a0 And the company went through a few investment rounds, one of which I just read about in The Next Web blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And I still don’t get it.<\/p>\n

First of all, I have the feeling that software moves to the web.\u00a0 Not all of it and not as fast as I’d like it to, but the future seems to be pretty much web-based.\u00a0 Secondly, those people who are technically literate enough to find, download, and install Wakoopa, are, I belive, literate enough to figure out their issues with current software and find similar software if need be, using nothing by Google and IRC.\u00a0 Thirdly, there is this evergrowing privacy concern, that itches every time words “tracking” and “sharing” are used. Fourthly, there is the question of licensed software vs. pirated software, which needs to be addressed by way too many Windows users (primary target for Wakoopa software and social network).\u00a0 Fifthly, there are likely to be quite a few conflicts between people at work and corporate sysadmins. Sixthly, …<\/p>\n

With all that, I can still see that there will be a few people here and there who would probably like to participate in this experiement.\u00a0 But, the thing that I don’t quite understand is how this experiment became so large.\u00a0 I mean, there are millions of investment, thousands of users, and lots and lots of hype.\u00a0 I don’t get it.\u00a0 Anyone care to explain? Or guess maybe?<\/p>\n


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P.S.: Not that I am jelous of Wakoopa or anything.\u00a0 They are doing something that apparently has a lot of demand, so I wish the best of luck to them.<\/em><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

There are things that are as obvious as daylight.\u00a0 There are things that I need to research and think over to understand.\u00a0 And there are things that feel like I’ll never understand.\u00a0 Wakoopa is one of them. I first heard about Wakoopa back in April when I was in Amsterdam, at The Next Web 2008 … Continue reading Wakoopa – one of those things that I don’t get<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62,1334],"tags":[215,1968,1466,116,1152,39,1224,1553,1552],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-11215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-applications","tag-business","tag-conferences","tag-europe","tag-social-networks","tag-software","tag-startups","tag-thenextweb08","tag-wakoopa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t