Comments on: This is big: Wakoopa tracks web apps (but not YouPorn)

By: Wouter

Wouter — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:53:15 +0000

I have noticed that the ‘friends of Wakoopa’ are very keen on applauding Wakoopa in the open.

Whenever you read an article about Wakoopa on the web, you can count on ‘this is awesome’ comments from everyone in the NextWeb offices. I’ve seen it here, I’ve seen it on Techcrunch, and I’ve seen something similar with BLOG08 on MarketingFacts.

I understand that you guys are very excited about all your projects, and want to share your excitement with the world. However, I would advise you to be careful, as it can turn against you. People will start questioning the sincerety of your ‘this is awesome’ comments if they always and only appear below articles of your friends.

BTW I’m not judging, I’m only advising you to think twice. Whatever you do is up to you :).

By: Freek Smoes

Freek Smoes — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:38:21 +0000

It was the combination of article + comments of Patrick & Boris (who are shareholders if I’m not mistaking?) that triggered my reaction.

There’s nothing wrong with supporting your investments, but this gave the impression of conflicting interests.. I would suggest some restraint in commenting on pieces about companies in which you have a financial interest.

By: John N Le

John N Le — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:03:18 +0000

That’s a reasonable measure as it keeps everything out in the open. ZDNet does this with all their bloggers.

By: Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:41:28 +0000

Maybe we should add a “Disclaimers” page to the blog where we describe everything we are associated with and link there?

By: Wakoopa’s move may create new site usage meter « Fredrik Kjell on technology progress

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:03:04 +0000

[...] 10, 2008 by frekje The next web reports that Wakoopa is now also extending their tracking to inlcude the use of web services. If [...]

By: Ernst-Jan Pfauth

Ernst-Jan Pfauth — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:24:02 +0000

(but the author of this piece doesn’t)

By: Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:21:51 +0000

Well, as it says in the article “Disclosure: Wakoopa is our sponsor”. To tell you the truth: they are more than our sponsors. We even own shares in Wakoopa! Even worse: we share the same offices!!!

But if it is news for Techcrunch we might as well report about it too: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/09/wakoopa-begins-tracking-web-apps-alongside-their-desktop-counterparts/

By: Freek Smoes

Freek Smoes — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:44:29 +0000

A word from our sponsors? ;-)

By: john le

john le — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:55:38 +0000

Ernst, this is a very interesting application as it certainly does add value to the life of companies rolling out webapps and need to monitor its usage beyond simply “how many downloads today…”

We have a platform called Artiklz that just debuted 2 weeks ago in private alpha and it helps to aggregate comment streams from various websites, blogs, and URL based destinations. I see a parallel in our offering to Wakoopa in that we allow content creators to understand where their IP has permeated throughout the social media.

I’m glad someone is doing this in the webapp space as Artiklz can benefit from such an app as it rolls out its platform globally.

By the way, see you at Blog08!

John

By: Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:12:37 +0000

Damn, maybe I should stop using Safari too! ;-)