State of Applications from Wakoopa

Pete Prestipino — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:06:00 GMT

Software discovery social network Wakoopa published "The State of Apps: Software, Games and Web - Q2 2009" trend report today.

We’ve pulled out a few of the more important findings (leaving out much of the “gaming” data) revealed in "The State of Apps - Q2 2009" report including:

- Twitter continues to experience steady growth and was used by 25% of the Wakoopa community. Twitter usage peaks around 9 PM daily and is one of the most actively used apps at that time.
- Facebook narrowly beat out YouTube as the most popular social media site among Wakoopa users. Other popular social media sites included Flickr, MySpace, Last.fm and LinkedIn.
- The biggest overall gainer on the Web was Habbo, a social networking website aimed at teenagers. The second largest gainer was social media community Orkut, designed to make your social life more active and stimulating.
- Firefox was the most popular browser with 55% of all Wakoopa members in Q2 2009. Google Chrome is the second most used browser worldwide among Wakoopa users, except in Asia where Internet Explorer is the top browser of choice. More then 90% of all Linux users utilize Firefox as their primary browser.

"The continued rise of social networks like Facebook and Twitter coupled with the diversification of the browser market led to our decision to publish this report on a quarterly basis," states Robert Gaal, CEO and co-founder of Wakoopa. "Our goal is to highlight some of the overall trends and changes we see developing on the application landscape, and in the process provide insight into the habits of Wakoopa's community of software enthusiasts and early technology adopters."

The statistics in the report were generated during the second quarter of 2009 by more than 110K software enthusiasts and early technology adopters who are active, registered users of Wakoopa.com.

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Profiting from TweetPhoto's Open Platform

Pete Prestipino — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:46:00 GMT

TweetPhoto, a Photo sharing service for Twitter users, has opened its development platform to the Twitter developer community and released a Developer Revenue Program.

TweetPhoto is essentially incentivizing developers to use its API by offering 100% of Google AdSense revenue for making the service the default photo sharing provider within their application. The Developer Revenue Program TweetPhoto offers is unmatched by any photo sharing competitor on Twitter," Jonnie Hallman, Founder of DestroyTwitter. "The ease of TweetPhoto's API and willingness to consider developer requests made it a hands-down choice as DestroyTwitter's default service."

"We are very excited to open up our entire photo sharing platform to the Twitter developer community," said Sean Callahan, Co-Founder of TweetPhoto. "We offer developers the most expansive and complete photo sharing API available within the Twitter eco-system and provide them a financial incentive to work with us. This is just one of many ways we are now supporting the Twitter developer community as our business model does not revolve around advertising."

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State of Applications from Wakoopa

Profiting from TweetPhoto's Open Platform