If you are sending work/progress reports to the project lead on a daily or weekly basis, I wondered if you would consider using Twitter or similar services for these updates.
Say if you’re working remotely or with a distributed team and the project lead has a hard time getting an overview about the topics people are working on, and where the issues/time consumers are, would you set up some private accounts (or even a private company-internal service) to broadcast progress updates to your colleagues?
edit Thanks for the link to those products, but do you already use one of it in your company too? For real-life professional use?
Try Laconica: An open source Twitter-like system you could run on your own servers.