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I work at Projectplace Labs. In fact I’m managing it. No doubt it’s the best job I’ve ever had. Imagine getting payed for experimenting with far out things all day. Two examples:

Samuel is da man!

• Samuel, who also works at the lab and blogs on this site, started to play with the iPhone SDK some month ago and just yesterday he sent a Projectplace client for the iPhone to AppStore. It should appear there any day soon. Computer Sweden wrote about it today (Swedish).
• A year ago I tried out Sandy3D (awesome 3D engine for Flash written in AS3) and quickly got a prototype up for a Cooliris-inspired photo wall, it was WOW to me so I called it WowAlbum. Not as immediately business applicable as Samuel’s iPhone app, but a fun thing to do.

Projectplace Labs is very much inspired by those big, innovative, forces out there. Mozilla Labs, Microsoft Office Labs, Adobe Labs and, of course, Google Labs. Google is probably our main inspirational source. We’re trying to reverse engineer Google’s innovation machine and apply what we feel fits us (or at least try to convince our managers to let us apply it). We’ve also taken Quincy Jones’ receipt for success to our hearts;

Hire the best and set them free.

We apply it on all levels. Ideas, creativity, people, innovation, inspiration, code, joy, love. Unleash!

Yap - planning made fun

Ummm, I was definately not planning to write about Projectplace Labs in this blog. Got a bit carried away there. I was mainly about to use the Bagonca server to make a development version of Yap available to a guy I’m working with at A-Dato. Then I thought, heck I can blog about it, and then I felt I needed to tell about where I work.

And now I need to tell you something about Yap too, right? You can read a little about it at Projectplace Labs and also at Projectplace Ideas. To cut a long story short:

We, Projectplace, want to be the company who made project planning fun.

That development version of Yap that you can access even before it appears on Projectplace Labs? Don’t worry, I haven’t fogotten, here goes:

• Faster than Excel, easier than MS Project

Now, how cool does this make Bagonca? It even publishes Projectplace Labs stuff before Labs! =)