3pointD.com

A while back, I blogged about a shopping site that let a community of individual makers of craft products put their stuff up for sale. My interest in it was in some of the geocentric search functions, and the fact that the community was using an avatarized Town Hall to take the pulse of its vendors and make decisions. Now Om Malik reports that Etsy has raised a round of seed funding from some pretty impressive investors. (Go, Etsy! Which is based in Brooklyn, like me.) Om also has a nice piece in Business 2.0 about eCommerce sites and other businesses that are increasingly run by their customers. What I’ll be interested to follow is how many of these communities make use of 3D and other virtual spaces to do their work in. All very promising developments in any case.