Fire Eagle:Yahoo! Opens Its Location Platform to All
Yahoo just announced that the close beta period for its location platform Fire Eagle has ended and that the service is now open for everybody. We wrote about Fire Eagle extensively when the beta was first announced. Since then, a number of high-profile services, including Brightkite, Movable Type, Dopplr, and Pownce have implemented Fire Eagle through the numerous APIs Yahoo provides for accessing the service.
When we first wrote about Fire Eagle, we were especially concerned with the privacy implications of sharing your location online. This is especially important because Fire Eagle wants to be a central hub for sharing location information across applications.
