Comments on: Yahoo FireEagle - A Platform Service For Geo Information

By: Yahoo Hires Former Twitter Chief Architect Blaine Cook

Yahoo Hires Former Twitter Chief Architect Blaine Cook — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:20:43 +0000

[...] which we’ve described as a “Twitter for location” was first announced in November 2007 and is currently in private [...]

By: Lightpole Implements Fire Eagle, Helps You Get to Know the World Around You | crown.MONKEY

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:30:25 +0000

[...] content to mobile phone users, mostly regarding information related to points of interest (POIs). Fire Eagle, which launched last month, is Yahoo’s geo-information platform, which allows users to update [...]

By: Lightpole Implements Fire Eagle, Helps You Get to Know the World Around You

Lightpole Implements Fire Eagle, Helps You Get to Know the World Around You — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:01:57 +0000

[...] content to mobile phone users, mostly regarding information related to points of interest (POIs). Fire Eagle is Yahoo’s geo-information platform, which allows users to update their current location from [...]

By: tecosystems » fire eagle: Yahoo’s Location Platform

tecosystems » fire eagle: Yahoo’s Location Platform — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:13:31 +0000

[...] integration that’s enabled by the underlying fire eagle platform. As Michael Arrington describes it: This is perfect for services like Flickr, which still struggle to get users to add lat/long [...]

By: Loopt Launches Mobile Social Networking Application Platform

Loopt Launches Mobile Social Networking Application Platform — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:30:45 +0000

[...] a developers program. Yahoo’s Brickhouse has been working on a similar GPS platform as well (Fire Eagle), but relies on the programmer to feed the location data into the service. Another location based [...]

By: The Software Abstractions Blog

The Software Abstractions Blog — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:52:51 +0000

The Semantic Web is becoming real - slowly …

A couple of weeks ago, I attended an event from the SDForum in Palo Alto, featuring a series of project demos showcasing real applications built on the Semantic Web. While I was initially skeptical, I came away amazed at the…

By: Timi Agama

Timi Agama — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:34:26 +0000

Location is a serious issue for a whole range of mobile apps (ours included). So an open platform could be quite interesting indeed. Especially when you consider that this gives users the convenience of a single point from which they control access to their location data across multiple applications.

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:14:04 +0000

This is very similar to the Hostip.info Geolocation open-source project. They’ve been doing this for years. http://www.hostip.info/

By: copernic67

copernic67 — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:22:30 +0000

Because it’s open! and it seems the location information will be re-usable through geoRSS feeds or another API…

By: Louis

Louis — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:05:38 +0000

I am questioning how this is such a masterpiece?

I have recently developed a system similar to this in .NET, which tracks my companies GPRS devices using a range of WMS’s, and am wondering why it is labled as such a breakthrough?!?

By: David Carrington

David Carrington — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:09:04 +0000

Very keen to try my hands on this. I’ve been working on Windows Mobile and integrating cell tower locations with Jaiku updates and similar. Theoretically you could use cell tower lookups as a GPS-like data source for mapping software.

By: nick of cebu

nick of cebu — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:46:00 +0000

@ #16

It’s just a more accurate version of IP address-based geolocation, which millions of website already use.

By: Michigan

Michigan — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:22:06 +0000

Sounds like we’re finally going to get something that I wanted when I first saw Total Recall in 1990. Permission-based geo locating that would actually benefit people is something that’s going to happen — the thing is figuring out how to do it responsibly and safely.

By: With The Band - Zvi Band

With The Band - Zvi Band — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:48:53 +0000

FireEagle and thoughts on location sharing….

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By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:39:00 +0000

I found out about FireEagle at BarCamp Atlanta a while ago and it sounded pretty interesting then and still is. I’m just waiting to take real advantage of it a GPS device.. but iPhones don’t like connecting to bluetooth GPS devices.

By: Misery

Misery — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:34:03 +0000

Michael @ 9
Given that IBM is so heavily invested in Java, I find it quite interesting that IBM get its feet wet with PHP…..

Seriously, all large companies use a variety of technologies. Everyone is tinkering with everything and largely, it’s down to the individual developers preference of a new service. Nothing to see here….

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:26:49 +0000

Rather than this being a ‘direct’ service, it sounds more like a back-end tool you plug into some other web application.

Still pretty interesting, none the less…

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 11:22:31 +0000

Now Yahoo can think up some good names!
They just thought about driving, mingled two tire names: FireEagle!

http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

By: Exchange3D

Exchange3D — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:09:55 +0000

Michael, watsup with the screen photos?

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 07:05:44 +0000

Is someone’s screen capture functionality broken?

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:57:12 +0000

Given that PHPs sinventor Rasmus Lerdorf wirks for Yahoo I find it quite interesting that Yahoo gets its feet wet with Ruby on Rails. Also, if this catches on I am looking forward to see the dev team’s comments on the RoR stigma that never seems to go away “but does it scale?”.

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By: Dominik

Dominik — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:36:28 +0000

This dances on the very fine line between creepy and exciting…

By: Philip Bulley

Philip Bulley — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:11:01 +0000

this is all getting a little too Big Brother for my liking.

By: Eric Gonzalez

Eric Gonzalez — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 05:22:01 +0000

Funny enough I’ve had no less than 3-4 conversations about this idea in the last 2 days.

By: carlo

carlo — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 04:30:19 +0000

the double “e” in that name is nasty.