DeannaS

kgraeme

This widget allows blog admins to add a listing of the latest posts from a featured blog from within the WPMU site. If you choose an author and have avatars turned on, the author’s avatar will also be displayed.
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Internationalized version of this widget with French translations is available at 
http://medialab.samizdat.net/pub/?path=wordpress-mu/

WPMU Featured Blog Widget

A widget that allows you to pull recent posts from another blog within the WPMU Site.

D'Arcy Norman

The plugin gives users the oportunity to embed a tag cloud for a site within any page. 
When using the shortcode [tagcloud] when 
writing in the content of any page, the user includes in the page, a 
tag cloud for posts on that site.
I am working on adding the ability to set options, such as sizes, etc…

WPMU Featured Blog Widget vs Tag Cloud Shortcode