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Yahoo Has Opened Up Its Fire Eagle Platform To All

Aug. 17, 2008 01:15 AM

Yahoo has opened up its Fire Eagle platform – in private beta since March – to all and sundry.

It gives users a place to store and manage information about their location, and offers developers protocols for updating or accessing that information.

Any networked service can use it to respond to a user’s location to help them find their friends or nearby services and local information. People are supposed to be able to control how much detail about their location they want to share and which applications they want to share it with.

Fire Eagle was built at Yahoo Brickhouse, a skunkworks for start-up-like projects inside Yahoo. During the private beta the widgetry was integrated into 50 applications.

Yahoo wants sector leadership.

See http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/developer.

Published Aug. 17, 2008— Reads 783
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About Maureen O'Gara
Maureen O'Gara is the Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server News" for more than a decade. One of the most respected technology reporters in the business, Maureen can be reached by email at maureen(at)sys-con.com or paperboy(at)g2news.com, and by phone at 516 759-7025.

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