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MyBlogLog’s new coat of paint

Owen — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:30:57 +0000

I’ve just read that MyBlogLog has redesigned their site, making it look shinier and giving it more rounded edges. There seems to be a lot of debate around the fact that the redesign didn’t actually introduce any new features, however the design community seems to like it. To tell you the truth, I haven’t been to MyBlogLog is so long, well, it all looks rather new

The one thing I hadn’t come across before was their Connector tool which lets you link up with people across different social networks they might be on. They’re not aggregating content in the same way FriendFeed does. Instead, it simply scans what services you are on, looking for people you know and links them up with you. The connector than takes you to that person’s profile page so that you can link up with them. I thought that was useful.

SearchMe adds Stacks

Owen — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:26:57 +0000

I’ve just noticed that SearchMe, the visual search engine, has just added a feature called Stacks, which gives users the ability to group their search results, make them available for future searches and share them with other users. Here’s a video demoing the capability:

They have also added media searches to let you search through video (coming from YouTube) and images (coming from Flickr). It’s a great idea really, try looking for Vegas vacations for example, and you can get videos and images directly related to where you’re planning to go. Or search for Music Toad and find something surprising.

Entrecard adds new features

Owen — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:31:55 +0000

It’s nice to see a service you use add new features and continue to expand. Especially when they add a feature that users have been clamoring about for some time. Entrecard has finally added the ability for users to have more than one blog in their system. You could implement this in the past by setting up an account for each blog, but this was a major pain in the neck. Now there’s a new option called “Linked Blogs”

This lets you add a new blog, or join up a different blog you had created a new account for. Linked blogs have the following properties:

Linked blogs are displayed as “Other blogs by this author” on the profile page
There are no limits on credit transfers between linked blogs
When dropping, the currently Active card is the card that is dropped
Each blog may drop on up to 300 sites per day

There are other features they have introduced (including a new home page), but this is the best feature I think. It’s interesting how once you get used to the base service a website offers, it’s the new stuff that attracts your attention, just like shiny kitchen faucets on an old kitchen. New features make the service exciting once again, give it that spot of freshness.

Do you use Entrecard? If so, check out Entredroppers, a WordPress plugin to display your Droppers