I’ve never been very good with project management tools. Most I’ve used seem too complex for my taste and never that easy to understand and use.

Just when it seems things can’t get worse for AOL, it appears they have a mole leaking information to Consumerist.com. The Consumerist has been on AOL like a boxer pup on a meatloaf since the “cancel my account” snafu, digging up internal memos and employee manuals. The public relations nightmare continues.

Former Microsoft employee Marcelo Calbucci wants you to have a website. And he’d like it very much if you use his new product, called Sampa, to build it. Although it denies simple classification, Calbucci speaks of Sampa as a “blog on steroids.” It’s for home or business use.

Sometimes the game is over even though somebody on the losing team is still running like mad toward home plate.

In an earlier article, we explained how web hosting reviews identify web hosting companies by the services they offer.

What do you do when an employee disagrees with something you’ve written on their performance review? How can you prepare for this and deal with it effectively?

Web hosts come under many names: ASP Hosting, Cold Fusion Hosting, Java Hosting, PHP Hosting; and as such, so must web hosting reviews.

Pete Cashmore reviews Evoca.

Charlene Li reviews Google Finance, the latest from the big G. The most notable feature?

Google Base is becoming more like eBay each day.

Instead of waiting to pick up a copy of the Friday newspaper to read what critics have to say about new releases at the theater, fans have moved their attention online.

An update to my earlier post on the ESPN ads on iTunes.

Yesterday Dave Winer, Patrick, and I were at the Metreon and said “let’s go see a movie.”

Amazon.com has made its 10-year-old database of consumer reviews completely searchable!

TechCrunch reports that Toshiba has come up with an intriguing marriage of blogs and bar codes.

The hotly anticipated Flock browser, developed by some of the same folks that had they’re hands in Mozilla’s Firefox, is now available in beta release for the eagle-eyed scrutiny of the nit-pickiest code monkeys.

Spotted in a post by Hugh MacLeod – an innovative (and, today, hardly surprising) approach to building buzz about a movie by getting bloggers to talk about it. In return, they get free tickets to the US preview.

Believe it or not, Firefox 1.0 has been around for less than a year. In that short time, it has gained at least 10% of the browser marketshare and spurred Microsoft to finally bring back Internet Explorer from its innovation stasis.

Well, looks like John Battelle has done it. He’s written the first and therefore definitive book on Google and the dawning of the search generation. But in the words of Lavar Burton from “Reading Rainbow,” don’t take my word for it.

Users in the UK can enter the title of a movie into the Google search box to find showtimes and reviews.

Writing book reviews, product reviews, and reviews of other blogs is one way to increase your visitor traffic level. Reviews are also a powerful technique to enhance your reputation as a blogger.