Lawrence has just announced the release of CKS:EBE Beta1.

I have only juts joined the CKS team who have been very busy creating an excellent first beta release. This is a fantastic community effort and now in Beta we need you all to try it and provide feedback;  the more we get the better each release will be!

In true “Dog Food” fashion Vince Rothwell (aka The.Kid) has been running the beta on his live blog for a couple of days on CKS:EBE (Enhanced Blog Edition) and it does look good.

Alpha of the SharePoint CKS:EWE is available

There is also an Enhanced Wiki Edition (CKS:EWE) which is a small step into the as yet not very well documented area of SharePoint Wiki customisation.  This release was made early in the alpha cycle to allow people to see what was happening.

ChatterBox AJAX Beta

Updated chatterbox control, this uses the ASP.NET AJAX which will be supported with the release of SP1 for WSS/MOSS.

And the production ready Tag Cloud which will be used in various parts of the CKS project.

What Next

Download it. 

Play with it.

Feedback to the community.

There is an issues list and I encourage people to have a look at this before reporting problems.

Enjoy!