ThisNext.com Launches New Content Creation Tool for Blogs and Social Networks

“BlogIt” feature empowers users with easy content creation and distribution—in seconds

March 14, 2007—Los Angeles—ThisNext.com has expanded its blogging tool set by adding a new member to the Shopcasting Suite family: BlogIt. After feverish testing over the last few months and a thumbs-up from select members, ThisNext proudly introduces BlogIt—an easy tool that allows bloggers and social networkers to distribute attractive content easily and quickly. In three easy steps, a user can create personalized HTML code that can be copied and pasted to multiple platforms.

“Serious bloggers and social networkers usually maintain multiple blogs, including their own. It is not uncommon to see a blogger in five or even ten different social environments online,” says Gordon Gould, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder at ThisNext. “Until now there hasn't been an easy tool to allow quick and easy casting of images and content. We have designed a great tool that empowers users by allowing them to broadcast their opinion and product recommendations quickly and easily.”

The first product unveiled in the Shopcasting Suite was ThisNext's customizable badge for publishers looking to promote individual products. BlogIt now takes the process one step further by allowing users to quickly create and showcase a graphic visual collage in matrix form. No more clicking through just one item at a time: BlogIt is ideal for users who want to promote a big-picture presentation appropriate for themed lists of gadgets, must-have snowboarding gear or favorite green products.

BlogIt, like ThisNext's badge, is highly customizable and can be up and running in just seconds on MySpace, Vox, StumbleUpon or anywhere else users socialize.

“I, like half the world, use the Internet to procrastinate, shop and, ironically, to connect with strangers. ThisNext enables me to do it all in a stylish and efficient way. I'm able to share my favorite things with my readers, which always spawns further discussion, and if nothing else, leads to more web procrastination,” says Stephanie Klein, author of Straight Up and Dirty and stephanieklein.com. “The BlogIt tool facilitates sharing in a modern interactive setting designed to promote community, commercialism and—let's face it—a whole lot of additional comments on your blog.”

To view BlogIt used by bloggers, see the following examples below:

• http://grenadefishing.com/merchandising/orange-obsession.html
• http://stephanieklein.blogs.com/greek_tragedy/2007/02/the_foxy_kitche.html