Two of the largest networks created for bloggers have recently rolled out new designs for the websites, with MyBlogLog following in BlogCatalog’s early June redesign.

With the new design, very few new features come, but the design has overhauled some of the areas inside your profile with the recent visitors module (to the top of the page, rather than below the fold).  The main page now has a more defined message about what the service is about:

• Discover - You’ve got a blog, see who’s checking you out.  You might have more in common than you think!
• Broadcast - Share your online activity!  All your latest photos, blog posts, videos, tweets, and more on a single page, updated automatically.
• Connect - Now that you found the cool people on MyBlogLog, connect with them all over the web!

A three-step outline is provided to the right about how to get started, along with a showcase (slider) of twenty blogs with the most followers.

These changes follow in suit with smaller, but equally brand-creating moves, including the MyBlogLog Connector, a tool to help keep you connected and updates from Zillow and Trulia profiles, catering towards the real estate blogging community.

BlogCatalog Screenshot
Early June 2008

MyBlogLog Screenshot
Late July 2008

As these two social networking/blogging tools continue to evolve to the quickly changing blogosphere, it is apparent, in both cases, that they are trying to meet the demands of bloggers to create (singlehandedly competing against one another) a single, unified profile of all your social communities that you belong to.  

While the design of each service may not tell the whole story of what is behind the shiny interface in ways of tools for connecting with others, it may certainly be a step in the right direction – resulting in a single location to track the status of people in your small “network” of followers.  Along with the site redesigns and new features, it shows that there is still a hard working team behind these networking sites for new members to utilize.