Finding the Perfect Online Project Management Tool Day 97

My coworker Monika linked me to an exhaustive list of project management tools on Tuesday at the Everything 2.0 Blog. There are 128 items here, and I simply don’t have the kind of time it takes to write up a comprehensive review of each of them. So, instead, I’ll check them over and just write down my first objection to the service, and move on. I might have to cobble together two or three applications to get a compromised solution, so if necessary I will tag some as partial solutions. If I don’t have any objections to a service, well, I’ll stop and recommend it to everyone.

Name & Link	Short Summary	First Objection
1time	Organize & manage projects	No Gantt chart
88miles	Track & manage time	Track Time to the second? Too timeclockish
8apps	Collaboration tools	Closed down
Actionize	Project, task, contact, network & file management solution	No Gantt chart
Actionthis	Organize & manage projects	No Gantt chart
Athyrium	Personal organizer	No Gantt chart
Basecamp	Manage your projects	No Gantt chart, too timeclockish
Bluetie	Collaborative Office-like toolkit	We already have Microsoft Outlook
Bubblus	Brainstorm together online	Bubble maker! Really fun, but totally not what I’m looking for. Better as addon to another application.
Businessitonline	Collaboration tools	No project management, too much cashflow management
Celoxis*	Manage workflow, time & expenses, and collaborate	No Schedule Tracking
Centraldesktop	Collaboration tools	No Gantt chart
Cogmap	Create, edit & share org charts	Made obsolete by Microsoft Word 2007 SmartArt
Collanos	Share & collaborate on files in groups	Can be emulated by shared network folders
Colligo	Collaboration tools	Offline sharepoint, not what I’m looking for
Copernic	Search app	desktop search software, not relevant to this search
Copperproject	Manage & collaborate in projects	client-centered, we are software development centered
Cozi	Organize your family	I’m not yet married
Creativeprooffice	Organize & manage projects	invoices, billable hours, clients… I need not such things
Cvent	Organize & manage events	We’re not planning events, we’re developing software
Devshop	Software project management software, Microsoft Project for software developers	no schedule or expense tracking. Potential partial solution
Dotproject	Open source project management tools	clunky, no schedule tracking
Dreamteam	Organize & manage projects	Don’t need billable hours. Nice Gantt chart though. Potential partial solution.
E-days	holidays and absence management system	perfectly fulfills one of my seven requirements – schedule tracking. Potential partial solution
Eloops	Project management solutions	free trial link gives 404 error. Forget it! also, don’t need social networking features at startup company
Eproject	Manage your projects (integrated with Outlook)	offline software
Evernote	Create, organize & find notes (client)	it just does notes
Famundo	Schedule your family & organization	I’m not yet married
Firestoker	Enterprise communications & democratization platform	social networking as management tool? Nice concept, not what I’m looking for
Flowchart	Create & share flowcharts	Flowcharts! I need this for another project. complete distraction right now though
Freshbooks	Online invoicing and time tracking service	don’t need to keep track of billable hours, and that’s all this does
Functionfox	Manage your time and (creative) projects	don’t need timesheets, clients, need gantt chart, bug tracking
Gaboogie	Organize & manage web conferences	PalBee is better!
Glide	Organize meetings & review projects	not what I’m looking for
Goplan	Organize your work & publications	no Gantt chart
Gradefix	Organize your homework	We’re not doing homework
Grouploop	Organize & collaborate in your own group	Nice calendar, needs other features
Harvest	Timesheets & reports	Timesheets are beyond the scope of my project
Hitask	Organize & manage groups	tasks only. needs more features
Huddle	Collaborate on PR, advertising, marketing, design	No Gantt chart, my #1 favorite rejection criteria
Icalshare	Create, share & manage your schedule	Google Calendar does it better
Intervals	Organize & manage projects	do not need hour tracking
Inventiondb	Create & share online project space	public blogging of projects. Not for us
Itensil	Create a process workflow for any recurring group activity	dynamic meeting management
Joesgoals	Manage & share your tasks	better for creating an exercise routine
Letsprove	Organize & manage projects	no info provided
Lightspoke	Automate your business processes in a whim	no business processes to automate
Listpool	Create, manage & share to-do lists	need more than just to-do lists
Loosestitch	Create & collaborate on task lists	creating outlines is nice but not what i’m looking for
Myquire	Project management tool	No Gantt chart
Myticklerfile	Manage your and others’ tasks	no response from server
Neptune	Manage tasks	just a task list
Nexo	Collaboration tools	I’d rather use Google Sites if it came to that
Odesk	Work as or hire remote workforce	Good solution for one of seven criteria. Possible partial solution
Officezilla	Free collaboration solutions	No Gantt chart. But, it does include bible search
Ohdontforget	Send yourself sms reminders	I get too many SMS already
Orgpluslive	Create & share org charts	Org charts are for big companies
Parlano	Group dialogue & document sharing	Parlano redirects to microsoft unified communications. Not what we’re looking for
Paystage	Manage your projects	don’t need to involve paypal in anything yet
Persony	Organize & manage web conferences	PalBee does it better!
Phprojekt	Organize group activities & document sharing	weird, crazy, too much clicking
Pipeline	Track your deals & organize your team	404 error
Planix	Organize & manage projects	strange, not what I’m looking for
Planplusonline	Planning solutions	sales? clients?  I need software development
Plone	Content management system for groups, communities, extranets and intranets	its a CMS
Project360	Organize your projects on the web or on your pda	No Gantt chart
Project4hire	Pitch for a freelance job	its classified ads
Projectinsight	Manage your projects	No objections, quite impressed, but demo requires a credit card so I can’t be sure
Projectpipe	Organize & manage projects	strangely useless
Projectplace	Run & co-ordinate projects	No Gantt chart, and useless preview video
Projectspace	Organize, manage & collaborate on your projects	I have no patience for web pages with their own soundtrack and no content
Projectspaces	Work together	No Gantt chart
Projity	Organize & manage projects	online java-based microsoft project replacement.  Wow!  Perfect solution to one of seven criteria.  Potential partial solution
Proworkflow	Manage your projects & time	too timeclockish, no schedule tracking
Putplace	Organize & share all your offline & online content	nice solution to one of seven criteria.  Potential partial solution.
Quickbase	Project management solution	flashy, lacking in functionality
Quickcamp	Organize your projects	basecamp keyboard shortcut extension
Recipething	Organize & share your recipes	we’re not cooking here
Regonline	Organize & manage events	Not organizing events
Relationals	CRM solution for media	we’re not customer-focused right now
Roughunderbelly	Score points on completion of your tasks	do not need an MMORPG to do work
Santexq	Time, task & billing management solution	do not need billable hours support
Schoopy	Classroom organizer & site hosting	we are not a school
Setdot	Organize & manage events	not organizing events
Sharea	Manage what you share with whom	web site is blank
Sharecare~	Organize yourselves in groups to share care	sharing and caring are not our business
Sharpcast	Synchronize all photos online & mobile	photos are not our business
Skemma	Define, use & improve your business processes collectively	i’m looking for project management, not business process monitoring
Skylook	Record & store all Skype communications	don’t use skype
Slimtimer	Organize your projects	don’t need timesheets
Smartsheet	Organize, share & manage tasks	need more than just task management
Snapbits	Store, sort & retrieve bits of information	i can do this with my mind
Snipitron	Create & share group research scrapbooks	scrapbooking is nice but beyond my scope
Snoozester	Manage your wake-up calls and get sms reminders	I don’t need more SMS reminders
Socializr	Organize meetings	We need more than meeting management
Sparkhive	Store & share thoughts, research, bookmarks	I can do this with paper
Springloops	Code management tool for groups	only correlates multiple programming projects
Structuredblogging	Create, edit & maintain all posts	we have a blog already
Tangentworks	Organize & manage projects	none of the features i’m looking for
Taskfreak	Task manager online	need more than just a task list
Taskspro	Group task manager	No Gantt chart
Teamwork	Organize & manage projects	clunky, awkward to use in video
Thinkature	Collaborative workspace	collaborative drawing.  Its nice but not what I need
Timebridge	Schedule group meetings	I can do this with MSN Messenger
Timexchange	Track your staff’s time	too timeclockish
Timexchangenet	Organize & manage projects	same thing two times
Todoz	Organize & manage groups	No Gantt chart
Toggl	Track time & meetings for teams	too timeclockish
Toodledo	Manage your to-dos	need oh so much more than this
Tracks	Personal organizer	need company organizer
Unfuddle	Ticket, source control & project management	only bug tracking.  need more!
Visualthesaurus	Create, manage & share events	its a thesaurus
Vitalist	Organize & share your tasks & projects	No Gantt Chart
Voo2do	Organize your tasks	tracks seconds of time spent doing tasks
Wamily	Share & collaborate everything with your group	still in alpha testing, and I’m not yet married
Webasyst	Project, knowledge, file, photo, email marketing & newsletters management solution	its got everything except a calendar.  Potential partial solution
Whatstheplan	Organize & manage events	web site no longer exists
Whodoes	Organize & manage projects	No Gantt chart
Workspace	Organize & manage web-based projects	online website for editing websites online.  Palindromic!
Worktimer	Track & manage time	too timeclockish
Writely	Store, edit & share documents	Google likes this a lot
Zohomeeting	Organize & manage web conferences	PalBee does it better!
Zohoplanner	Create & share memos & notes online	pseudogantt
Zohoproject	Organize & manage projects	pseudogantt
Zvents	Organize & manage events	Not managing events

Wow.  This is exhaustive.  And I find it hard to believe that after following so many links I was only able to find one potentially total solution, projectinsight.net, and only a few partial solutions.  It might have to be down to paper and Microsoft Project for us, still.  That decision will come later on in the week.