Yahoo launches Fire Eagle
Yahoo has launched its geo-location service Fire Eagle. I have been testing it in BETA and it has failed to get me over excited. Infact, I have set up an automatic trigger that pings me after a month if I haven’t used it.
That seems to be the only time that I actually go back and use it.
About Fire Eagle
Fire Eagle (http://fireeagle.yahoo.net) is an open platform that helps users take their location to the Web while giving them the ability to easily control how and where their location data is shared.
Fire Eagle gives users a place to store and manage information about their location, and offers developers clear protocols for updating or accessing that information. Because it’s open, any networked service can use Fire Eagle to respond to a user’s location - to help them find their friends, annotate the world or find nearby services or local information.
“Fire Eagle is about making everything on the Internet more useful, fun or interesting by adding the element of location,” said Tom Coates, head of product at Yahoo! Brickhouse. “We’re here to help people take their location to the Web by giving them the ability to control how much detail about their location they want to share and which applications they want to share it with.”
What we think?
OK, now Typepad is on there and I think that I am going to have to start blogging out of the office regularly this goe location feature might be intereting. Not giving up on it, just yet.
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