3pointD.com

I’ve somehow broken the Glitchy Links that usually appear here, so Glitch has had to send this along by hand: It’s a 3D email application called, what else, 3D Mailbox, which represents your email in three dimensions — i.e., as objects in an environment I think you can navigate as you would a first-person shooter game. At the moment, there’s a single “level” which is built to resemble Miami Beach. According to the site, “Beautiful models represent good email, and sleazy guys represent spam.” Coming soon (if you pony up the $29.95 for the premium edition) is the Los Angeles International Airport level (I think a “wtf?” is not out of place here), where your email is represented as jetliners. Man, there would be some serious congestion at LAX if my inbox were trying to get clearance to land. The trailer (above) quite brilliantly invites users to “hang out with your mail poolside or feed your spam to the sharks.” Is this a threat to Seriosity’s Attent? Probably not. But Robert Savage, who’s behind 3D Mailbox, apparently likes the value proposition in representing flat data as 3D objects, since he’s done it before with VisitorVille, which turns statistics about the people who have visited your Web site into, well, people. To me, these feel like rather lonely applications. Or perhaps they’re just testament to the current frothiness of 3D.