ShoutPost In The Wilderness

ShoutPost has just launched a free, innovative site for creating blogs. Following the new trend for advertising free blog sites, the creators of tBlog.com have built a site where users can be heard without the "noise" of advertising.  According to their press release, ShoutPost is the first free blog syndication host with no advertising.

Unlike sites such as MySpace.com, Friendster.com and blog.com ShoutPost reserves user spaces for user content only. The new site also provides a unique syndication system that enables bloggers to create their posts and instantly syndicate them to any other web site they have control over. According to the release, this is the first time bloggers have had the ability to syndicate in this fashion.

"We wanted to give bloggers a free personal space to share ideas without having to worry about their message being corrupted by the latest DVD release, or the newest network sitcom," said ShoutPost.com creator, Taylor Bayouth. "With the new syndication system, we also offer the first free method for any website owner to easily syndicate their ShoutPost blog anywhere on the web. We think this feature will play a large part in ShoutPost's success."

Does It?

1. No Ads in user area - Check
2. Free - Check
3. Syndication - Check
4. Point and click editing/spell check - Check
5. Image insertion - Check
6. Free versatile templates - Check
7. Feedburner - Check
8. Video Supported - Negative
9. Domains @ shoutpost.com  - Check
10. Web 2.0 - Check

Web 2.0?

This site appears to deliver what the press release indicates in every way, and it is definitive of a WEB 2.0 blog site. Signing up and figuring out the user controls for this site took less than 5 minutes. I created a blog page template and posted a cute little post in about 2 minutes. If you want to create a professional looking blog without redesigning the universe, this is the place to do it! I wanted to get this information out to our readers, so I did not do extensive site research, but I am really impressed folks! The site uses a Wordpress style point and click editor that is quick and slick. Templates are available for design or redesign, and images upload very quickly.

ShoutPost is the simplest, cleanest and most fun blog site I have been to in a long time, maybe even website period. Compared to the MySpace Customizer post I did some time back, ShoutPost is Web 3.0. No glimmering banner ads, pop ups, redirects, free plasma TV's. This place is going to rock folks! As advertised the user's space is fully customizable and navigation is as easy as it gets. My only negative comments about Shoutpost are that the site needs video embedding for the posts and the current content is sketchy. These things will surely be addressed or taken care of in the near future as the site gains popularity. I just like Ad free Web 2.0 stuff, and simplicity affords so much function for the time invested. As you can see from my little 1 minute post below, the "easy" button is not a bad tool to have!