Once again BusinessWeek has come up with List of Best Entities on Web, with voting started today on BusinessWeek Best of the Web'08 till Sept. 12, this time the ace news portal has come up with some new additions such as Best new comer entry and the famous - The Most Influential People on the Web. While in new comers the entries are - Freindfeed, Summize, GigaPan, Microsoft WorldWide Telescope and WaterCooler and in Blogs categories, the entries are more or less the same, yes you guess right its -TechCrunch, Scobleizer the two same 'old' brand new blogs along with http://gothamist.com, Seth's Blog and http://paul.kedrosky.com. Apart from above categories BusinessWeek do have other 23 categories too namely - Tech News, Business News, Social Networking, Sports, Real Estate and Blogging tools etc. with 5 nominees in each categories where users along with voting their favorites among the nominees can also submit their own choice of website in respective categories with few lines on why they like that website or blog. While browsing th nominees I found the redundancy in th nominees that has been around for quite a long time, the question is why not bring in the new and deserving ones, for e.g. ...

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 ...

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, ...