Google Projects seems to be a dashboard to organize all kinds of tasks. The tabs in this 2006 screen read “My PDB,” “Projects,” “Charters,” “Staffing Requests,” and “Reports.” At the top right there’s something that looks like an Atom feed subscription button. (Note that some of the info in the screenshot was already blurred, perhaps to hide info on unreleased projects, while, as in other screens, I added some more blobs and blurs elsewhere.)
Brian at his wrap-up article explains “PDB” means project database. This database is hooked up to another internal collaboration service called “Product Snippets”:
Google Product Snippets are a weekly email sent out on Monday where Googlers are asked to submit their previous weeks projects and activities as well as their forecasted work for the week ahead. All Product Snippets are then compiled into a database and made searchable to other Googlers so everyone knows what is going on at Google. Data collected via Snippets is then [published] to the “PDB” or Google’s project database user interface in real time making information collected easy for any [Googler] to access as well as comprehend no matter their area of expertise, language or location.
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