[OSM-talk] FYI: Yahoo Fire Eagle

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

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This seems like something we will be interested in:
http://fireeagle.research.yahoo.com/
Perhaps someone in the foundation can click the interested in
partnerships link on that page.

Quoting
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/02/indoor_camping_and_the_social.shtml

"For me I'm really exited by Tom Coates and Rabble's latest Yahoo!
project: Fire Eagle; which allows you to share you location with
friends, other websites or services.

"You can think of Fire Eagle as a location brokerage service. Via open
APIs other people can write applications that update Fire Eagle with
your location so that further applications that can then use it. So for
example, someone might write an application that runs on your mobile
that triangulates your position based on the location of the
transmitters before sending the data to Fire Eagle. You could then run
an application on your phone that let you know if your friends where
near by, what restaurants are in your area or where the nearest train or
tube station is.

"Obviously what Fire Eagle also provides is lots of security so you can
control who and what applications have access to your location data. I
can't wait to see what people end up doing with Fire Eagle and I'm
hoping that we can come up with some interesting applications too."



Robert (Jamie) Munro
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