One new piece of software that is on our radar as of late is BuddyPress by the developers of the popular Wordpress platform.  Why this piece of software looks so promising is really based on a few factors.  Firstly, its build on the

Wordpress MU Platform, so, we know its soid.  Secondly, by building on this platform, BuddyPress is allowing for unique customizable blogs per user.  This is something that I have been complaining about for quite some time with most CMS Community scripts.  Yes, Joomla has UserHomepages, but to be honest, the integration is so Jerry Rigged that we might as well just build an entire platform from scratch.  BuddyPress is still relatively young in its development, and has a bit to go.  The UI is pretty friendly, but honestly its a little too bland and repetitive.  I don’t find the interface to be too “themable” if you will.  Nonetheless, this is a hot piece of software that we will be keeping on the radar for some time and look forward to working with it in the near future on a project.