If you are visiting any city in India and you are a blogger, you can now find accommodation for free to stay and the place would be another blogger’s home. This is a sort of barter exchange being propagated by Indian website – ExtaBed.in.

At ExtraBed.in, bloggers are being asked to participate in this Blogger exchange program where bloggers offer extra bed to a fellow blogger or who visits blogger’s city. And in return, when you travel to his/her city, you have a place to stay.

This seems to be out of track and at the same time a way to bind and create a blogger’s network ‘offline’. If you want to host a blogger you can go to ExtraBed.in select the city you live in and add your contact details and If you are planning for a trip out of your city than find the the state name, click on it and find out the city and get in touch with bloggers who welcome other bloggers as their guests.

Also going ahead in this offline blogging network, the website ask bloggers to treat fellow bloggers visiting their city with pleasant hospitality along with a ‘Gift’ and a photo snap of both host and guest bloggers posted on blogs.

As of now the idea is propagating for bloogers in India, middle east, some part of US for this type of barter exchange.

Posterous is a new service through which users can post just anything by sending email, its a kind of twitter like microblogging, but unlike microblog here one can put any content using smart auto embedding services of Posterous. The service lets post content from email and content could be audio, video, image, pdf, doc or mp3 and you would get 1GB of space for all this.

One can use any email service such as GMail, Windows Live (Hotmail), Yahoo or any other to do blogging via email and for that you just have to send an email to post @ posterous.com unlike to other blogging services with WYSIWYG editors or so.

The interesting and USP part in this is Posterous intelligently embed the files in different user interfaces like when you post a YouTube video link via email, it automatically embed the video player as such and when you post any audio files it will put a nice Posterous interface for that (see image below) and audio player when you post an mp3 file.

Apart from this, when you send URLs, it will automatically create a link and when an image is send as an attachment it resize it to web friendly size, moreover good part is when you attach more than one image it will create a stunning Ajax image gallery (screenshot below) automatically, which is otherwise not feasible for less tech savvy bloggers.

The service do take care of email spoofing when you send your post via email and send you an email for confirmation when there is doubt that if email is sent by you only. Right now the service is free for all and have plans to add premium services later in future.

The service seems to be a bright start in line what Picnic has done when it comes to grabbing users moreover I don’t see any such similar service presently. The kind of blogging that Posterous brought to online users is really appreciative though one has too see if users could divert themselves to traditional blogging pattern to such services, when they get used to brands like Blogger (with similar email posting option), WordPress or Tumblr (microblogging service).