Tag: Fire Eagle

Fire Eagle is a Yahoo! owned service that stores a user’s location. It was created at Yahoo Brickhouse by a team which included among others Tom Coates, Simon Willison, Jeannie H. Yang, Mor Naaman, Seth Fitzsimmons, and Simon King. A user can authorize other services and applications to update or access this information via the Fire Eagle API, allowing a user to update their location once and then use it on any Fire Eagle enabled-website. The Fire Eagle service was one of the first sites to use the OAuth protocol to connect services together.

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Yahoo! Launches Fire Eagle

August 12, 2008

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,…