3pointD.com

Etsy.com is the craft Froogle, only better (apparently). It’s “your place to buy and sell all things handmade,” and its home page features very neat tools like a very 3pointD geolocator that lets you search for products by location, a “Shop by Color” function, and the ability to browse the thousand or so listings that went up on any particular day in the past. In best 2.0 spirit, there’s even a “coproduction” contest, in which Etsy sellers are asked to form teams and create things to sell on the site. Clickable Culture’s Tony Walsh passed an Etsy link along to me, though, because of the recent Town Hall meeting the community held, which took place in full 3pointD.

From the sound of the blog post above, a couple of Etsys (Etsies? Etsians?) hacked together a 90-person, Web-based chat room that lets users represent themselves with a 2D avatar and even gives them the ability to pass the mic to whoever has the floor. No word yet on how this worked for the Etsys, but it’s a nice example of a community making use of 3pointD tools to create a useful “space” online. Check it out. Me, I’m off to shop.