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.

The main question on everyone’s lips is whether the changes will enable Ask.com to get more market share. It certainly looks great, however they are realy following in Google’s footsteps here and the results they are showing are based on their old search results anyway. My friend Rory spent a week using Ask instead of Google to see whether he could live with it and ended up very very frustrated. Seems like Ask doesn’t have anywhere near the same size of data, processing power or relevance that Google has. Until this is addressed, I’m afraid Ask is just a lame duck!