Google making more 3D Connections

This today from Official Google Blog: Super models wanted.  In a move that should surprise no one, Google has cast an open call for 3D models to be submitted by users of their Sketch-up product, acquired last year, to be posted to their Google Earth service.
While they still have a lot of features missing, but this does but them on an eventual collision course with Linden Labs.  How long before Google introduces an avatar to walk around Google Earth?  Or maybe just hops in bed with Linden and does a deal to plaster Second Life with ads?
Just another straw on the camel’s back of pervasive 3D experiences as the way we work on the web.

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