This is brief but clear report on the internal more project-orientated use of the weblog metaphor within an organization. Compelling, again.

How InfoWorld uses intranet weblogs
they’re using MT in some interesting ways both publicly and internally [anil dash's daily links]

Nice little weather application of the Mac OS X menu bar. I’m going on vacations thus nervously checking the weather along our route beforehand.

WordPress 1.2 is out. I was waiting anxiously the last 2 weeks for that. Now I’m thinking of extending it for a business application. It offers a lot from the beginning. It’s def. a recommendation.

WordPress 1.2

I am very pround to announce the immediate availability of the much-anticipated 1.2 “Mingus” release of WordPress. You can download it through the usual methods, though it usually takes a few hours for the SourceForge mirrors to catch up with everything.

This shouls yield interesting funding-parties, after all.

inCircles of Social Networking

Stanford University inCircles their alum, as does the
University of Southern California, and now the
University of Michigan intends to inCirle their alumni as well.

These three university alumni associations are utlizing Affinity
Engines‘ inCircle product which was developed at the computer science department at Stanford University and offers,
among other features, a graphical representation of the connections between members that is user determined and
searchable.

Affinity Engines describes their product as:

inCircle ™ — the product suite
engineered to drive traffic to an affinity group such as a college alumni association – was developed within the
computer science department at Stanford University with an emphasis on privacy, security, and integration with legacy
systems.The proprietary software can be customized, although the  design is straightforward and easy to use.