New Blog Hosting Service: ShoutPost
Posted on January 24, 2007
A new free blog hosting service has debuted called ShoutPost. There always seems to be new blog hosting service but ShoutPost claims their service is unique because it is ad free and offers a unique syndication system. The service has a social networking feel because it provides users with both blogs and profiles.
Unlike familiar sites such as myspace.com, friendster.com or blog.com, which place intrusive and distracting advertisements on the user's personal blog pages, ShoutPost.com reserves the user's space for the user's content only. Additionally, ShoutPost.com provides a unique syndication system, which enables members to create their blog on ShoutPost.com, and instantly syndicate it on any other website that they have control over. This is the first time that a free-blogging site has offered syndication of this type.ShoutPost says they offer the following tools for free: "ad-free blogs, syndication tool, free subdomain (yourname.shoutpost.com), unlimited bandwidth, image manager and private posting." So how does a free ad-free service make money? It will have to be one of those web 2.0 miracles. In ShoutPost's defense they do have Google ads on the homepage and they could add premium services at a future date."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."