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A couple of weeks ago I traded in my iPhone for a new Mango based Windows Phone 7. For those of you that haven’t tried WP7, I would strongly suggest you do. In addition to being able to view your favourite EPM software through the mobile browser, the whole platform and experience seems vastly superior to the Apple offering.

Whilst the WP7 marketplace has a wide variety of application that is growing on a daily basis, it is a little light on Project related applications. So inspired by the fantastic Project Server and SharePoint iPhone app by Giles Hamson, I thought I would have a go at doing something myself, so I am pleased to introduce Project Social.

What is it?

Project Social is a social viewer application that aggregates MS Project related Twitter and RSS feeds from the official MS Twitter accounts and blogs, a number of community blogs and the Project Server Technet content feeds all into one convenient application. Each item can be read directly on the phone where you can interact socially with it by via twitter (tweets, replies or retweets) email or directly via the browser. The application is based on the excellent Codeplex Social Viewer template which is constantly being updated, so watch out for some exciting new updates in the future.

Where can I get it?

Project Social is available now as a free download from the Windows Phone Marketplace or by clicking on the image below.

If you have any suggestions, or would like to add or remove your feed, please contact me directly at wp7@epmsource.com.

A couple of weeks ago I finally took the plunge and got rid of my iPhone and replaced it with a Windows Phone 7 and promptly upgraded it to the new Mango release. After using it in anger for a while, I can’t believe I didn’t upgrade sooner.

Now why am I telling you this? Well whilst out on the road last week, I forgot to complete my timesheet. My company, like many others out there use Project Server 2010’s timesheet capability to record the time for each project we are working on. The only device I had on me at the time was my WP7, so I thought I would give it a go.

To my surprise, PWA popped up and rendered perfectly in Mango’s IE9 app. Now as I haven’t worked out how to screenshot in WP7, I have opened up PWA in the desktop emulator to give you an idea of what it looks like.

Zooming in by pinching the screen will let you see more detail. Unlike the iPad that I wrote about previously, moving around the page is very simple and easy to achieve.

If you are in need of a mobile timesheet and task solution for Project Server 2010, then you can’t really go past IE9 in Mango. Nice work MS!