MSN’s new Virtual Earth service will give Google Maps a run for its money. In fact, Virtual Earth seems better to me in some ways. I’m in a hotel in downtown Portland. The auto locate feature said I was within about 3 blocks of my actual location. I’d say that’s amazingly good. Some other locations I checked had better satellite imagery than Google Maps. Cool!

Terry Storch got his podcast on the iTunes directory. We need to get our sermon podcasts (such as Living Water’s podcast) to show up there too.

Search Engine Guide talks about churches using paid search (like Google AdWords).

Richard McManus has posted a bunch more Web 2.0 links.

Another in our series of posts on social networking. Jambo helps people at a conference (or people in a large church?) connect with each other and then physically get together.

Cool! Church of the Resurrection is #7 and Ginghamsburg is #9 on the list of the Top 50 Most Influential Churches.

Mike Wendland is switching back to Plain Old Telephone Service.

Chris Lanier gives a list of more podcatchers besides iPodder and iTunes.

Glenn of Vine Hosting directs our attention to Gizmo, a new Skype competitor that could be even better:

1. No limit to the number of people on a conference call
2. Has voicemail
3. Uses SIP and interoperates with SIP IP phones everywhere at no charge (according to Glenn)

Worth checking out.

This is what Irving Bible Church calls its “Digital Community“. It’s mainly forums, including prayer requests. A busy design, but hip.