Apparently this is 3D week for Flex applications. Earlier blog posts this week have focused on a 3D application for the Discovery Channel and Volkswagen. Today Yahoo joined the 3D group with a 3D Flex mashup of news information and a global map called NewsGlobe.

The 3D globe takes news items from Yahoo News and then maps the location of those news items onto a map of the world, allowing people to browse news by location, in a slick application.

Mashable is saying that this is Yahoo's response to Google Maps mashups. An interesting thought - it would be cool if Yahoo allows anyone to mashup their geo-encoded data with this application.

More on Yahoo Next and Mashable. Via Computer World.