Yes, I’m referring to the long awaited results to the BuzzShout blogger contest that ended at the end of October. And while I’m glad my catchy title has caught your attention, I’m sorry to report that we don’t yet have a winner. All submissions are in, and James and I are working together to agree on which one should get the grand prize.

Allow me to explain what has taken us so long. We’ve spent lots of time attending events and interviewing “Web 2.0″ visionaries. The videos that we’ve been posting take a surprisingly long time to edit, though I think we’ve finally gotten through the learning curve and the editing time seems to be going down. By the way, did I mention that the two of us behind BuzzShout also hold down day jobs?

Anyway, we will have a winner picked soon. Thank all of you for your submissions, and keep your eyes on your inbox as we will be emailing the winner before the big announcement. I badly wanted to submit my own entry to win the part of the cash prize that I wasn’t throwing in, but hence I couldn’t. So, if you know of other blogging contests on another site, and if they have a prize as cool as ours, please let me know so I can send them my entry.

Cheers!

We usually aim to get a post up on the Shoutblog once a day. Lately, however, we just haven’t had the time to do so. James is working on tightening up the backend of the site, and we’ve both been working on getting some new features released. The one that we’re most excited about is the video blog, or vlog, that we’ll be debuting on the Shoutblog tomorrow. The initial short video interview was our first attempt at the new medium, and while it needs some improvement, I think it’s a great job for our first one. They will continue to get better over time.

Also of note, we are quickly approaching the final October 30th submission date to get your entries in to the Shoutblog blogger contest. The $50 prize, which comes in the form of a prepaid credit card, is still up for grabs. We are also interested in bringing the winner on as a regular contributor. So, if you’re passionate about new web sites, apps, mashups, etc., be sure to email us your submission. Not to shabby to earn $50 for about an hour of your time writing about something you’re enthusiastic about.

Stay tuned for the first of our new releases starting tomorrow!

Dude, screenshots are so Bubble 1.0; check out the screencasts instead. Molly, a loyal BuzzShout user and our new friend, has created a wonderful screencast of BuzzShout. Not only has she done a great job with the screencast, but on it she’s even helping us promote our Shoutblog contest. What a great gal!

According to her Screeniac blog, she is the newest addition to VPOP Technologies, which does custom programming and web hosting out of Southern California. She has already done 50 screencasts, so be sure to check out some of her past work. If you also like her screencasts, and have a good idea for a site she should feature, drop her a suggestion here.

A song: Molly McDonald had a screencast, ee-eye, ee-eye-oh. And on that screencast she had Buzz-Shout (hyphenated to keep rhythm), ee-eye, ee-eye-oh. With a new site here and a new service there, here an app, there a mashup, everywhere a social networking site, ee-eye, ee-eye-oh…or something.

Note: About that contest, the prize has been decided and we think everyone will love it. Drumroll please…it’s…CASH! Fifty dollars of cold hard cash in the form of a pre-paid credit card. So get those blog entries submitted to us at the BuzzShout feedback email before the end of October. Don’t procrastinate or you’ll forget. Also, thanks to Computer Joe for the mention on the 9Rules site.

Wow, we’ve just blown through August haven’t we? We’d like to thank those of you who’ve already submitted blog entries for the Shoutblog blogger contest. Since very few write-ups were submitted, and because we’d like to have a larger pool to choose from, the contest will be extended to the end of October. If you’ve already submitted a write-up to us, don’t be discouraged. We’ve enjoyed reading your posts, and you will still be considered with the future entries that we receive. If you haven’t sent us anything yet, and you didn’t win the GigaOm contest, then send your entries to us now! 

To increase the amount of participants, we’ve decided to give away a prize to the winner with the best write-up. While we have some good prize ideas in mind, we’d like to hear what you think the winner should get. Keep in mind that we are a bootstrapping startup, and don’t have excessive amounts of money to spend. So we can afford a Porsche 911, just not the 911 turbo. Okay, I’m talking about a model Porsche; keep it at $100 or less (please, oh please, be less). 

Write your ideas for prizes in the comment section of this post, and send your blog entries for the contest to: feedback@buzzshout.com.

Here is the original post with some more contest information. 

2nd Update: Only one more to go! Who will be the one to add it? Grab your piece of BuzzShout history now! Update: We are now up to 998– Keep them coming!!! BuzzShout is quickly approaching the addition of company number 1,000 in our directory! We’d be thrilled if you helped us soar over this benchmark; please submit plenty of cool web companies with Web 2.0 offerings. Who knows, maybe you’ll be the one to add company number 1,000! If you are, we’ll give you a mention in this blog.