We've used the opportunity to play with lots of ajax goodness to make the user experience smoother. We don't believe star rating is efficient, so we use more binary values. Mostly it's stuff like incrementing use count without page reload, system messages and setting switches.
We also want you to effortlessly find the app you are looking for. To that end, we made categorization based on tags, and we also feature a full-powered free text search engine based on the Xapian engine.
Registration and use is free, and anyone can register applications, upload icons and screenshots, and register versions for their app. We also feature a system for claiming apps, so that app authors can maintain their own apps, if they wish. We also have a comment system with avatar support, and offer trackback linking to your blog for reviews and other articles related to apps. Right now, we are running in public beta, but are planning to remove that label as soon as everything checks out ok.
We also have some plans for new features for this system, for instance, we want to add support for version checking your apps, so that you can be notified of updates only for apps you use. There is also a tool for extracting and uploading icons in the works. We'd also like to expose a public API, if we can figure out what people want.
Feel free to try it out at http://osx.iusethis.com/ and give us feedback. We'd love to hear from you :)
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With regards
Marcus # http://osx.iusethis.com/user/marcus
& Arne # http://osx.iusethis.com/user/arne
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