3pointD.com

Glitchy links to “a sweet X-Men promo” called X-Planet that layers a fan-based social network on top of a browser-based Google Earth-powered app (or Google Earthsat data, at least). Click around the map and you can find your fellow mutants, see their profiles and links, zoom in on their GPS locations, add them to your buddy list, join fan squads and assign yourself mutant powers. Around 4,500 members have joined so far.There doesn’t seem to be a way for members to communicate with each other, but it’s an interesting use of geospatial data and a cool way to represent a social network. Imagine all of MySpace plotted as dots in your Google Earth. (Sites like Platial and Community Walk are doing similar things with Google Maps, of course.)