I deleted paxtonland from blogger today. It was a bittersweet event for me. I’ve held onto that service until it was actually beginging to hamper the development of this site. I was an early adopter of the service and it gave me flawless results for a long time, at absolutely no cost to me at all. All I can say to that is thanks very much, well done!
I wish Evan, with whomever is there at Pyra Labs, the very best. I’m not one to dispense advice to those who don’t need it but, I’m going to give you guys some anyway (famous last words). Now that you’ve got a smoothly operating model with blogger and blogspot, now that you have some corporate support, and now that you have advertising revenues streaming it. Do think about getting back to the beginings of what Prya was possibly going to be about.
The web can still use a good project management tool. eproject.com is unusable, intranets.com isn’t nearly sophisticated enough, and Microsoft Project Central costs too much and is too complicated to set up. Oh, I can give you about a dozen more sites and reasons why you should, but even if you were listening… I don’t really expect you to take my advice.
However if you are listening, it’s not just project management that is important. It’s providing an acceptable solution for people in two or more different places to work together as if they were side by side. One that encompasses an awful lot more that project management, message posting, and file sharing. If someone really sat down and examined the elements that are essential to remote workplaces, it would be a major step. Thus far, people have just added functionality to what are essentially message boards. That is not and never was good enough. With that said, obviously I’m thinking about this a great deal and have been for quite some time.
So, it you, dear Prya, or anyone else is listening and interested in what I’m thinking…. let me know. I think that there is a major paradigm shift about to happen. The infrastructure is not yet in place to support it. The features are, but form and functionality isn’t.