Location, Location, Location

Here's a new location-oriented web service: Verve Earth. It's still in beta, but seems to be working pretty well. It's a world map (from Google Maps, I think) that pinpoints the physical locations of websites, blogs, aggregators, and the like. Nice interface, and could be a cool way to do two things: location websites that have some relevance to their physical location, and add a physical dimension to social networking. The SXSW conference is a long distance away from here, but when the VerveEarth map gets populated enough to see websites and bloggers nearby physically as well as topically, it would be pretty easy to set up some sort of "drop in" session.