Yesterday, Twitter launched a redesigned homepage, which shows a shift in focus towards search (rather than specific users, as the old homepage highlighted). It seems that this new homepage could be a recognition, on Twitter’s part, of how users have shaped the microblogging platform - it’s now the place where you can find up-to-the-minute information on what’s happening NOW (rather than depending on search engines that are increasingly appearing to post more dated content, dependant on the slower nature of crawling the web and indexing content). Just look at the trends to see what people are talking about right this second (um…M&Ms and William Shatner? Really?). So does this poise Twitter to take on the search behemoths of Google and bing? Only time will tell…

Think the design of the American bills is a bit… passe? Outdated? Boring? Well so do a lot of other people, it seems, including Richard Smith, a creative strategy consultant who started the Dollar ReDe$ign Project. This website touts the need to “rebuild our country, revive our economy, redesign the Dollar bill!” and encourages users to submit their designs and win a prize if theirs is chosen as the best. While there’s not much up on the site now, there are some interesting looking alternatives that people have submitted:

Think you can do better? Be sure to submit your ideas here!