There’s an interesting new service called Wakoopa that combines a wee daemon that runs on your PC or Mac with a website to display information about the applications you use.

In other words, if Plazes answers the question “where am I?” and Jaiku answers the question “what am I doing?” then Wakoopa answers the question “what am I running?”

It feels sort of weird to be painting this information on so public a billboard — more self-intrusive than telling the world where I am all the time.

Today, for example, I used Coda for 3 hours, 7 minutes and 54 seconds and OpenOffice.org for 3 minutes and 41 seconds. While Wakoopa doesn’t reveal what I’ve been using the apps for — writing love letters or business letters, working for clients or procrastinating — presumably it wouldn’t be hard to Draw Some Conclusions.

Thanks to Ton for pointing the way.