Fire Eagle
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Type of site | Location-based services |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Owner | Yahoo! |
| Website |
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| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Required |
| Launched | August 12, 2008 |
| Current status | Closed February 2013 |
Fire Eagle was a Yahoo! owned service that stores a user's location and shares it with other authorized services.[1] It was created at Yahoo! Brickhouse by a team which included among others Evan Henshaw-Plath,[2] Tom Coates, Simon Willison, Jeannie H. Yang, Mor Naaman, Seth Fitzsimmons, Simon King, and Chris Martin.
A user could 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 intention of Fire Eagle was to serve as a central broker for location data.[3] Services which supported Fire Eagle included Pownce, Dopplr, Brightkite and Moveable Type.[4][5]
The Fire Eagle service was one of the first sites to use the OAuth protocol to connect services together.
Fire Eagle has closed as of February 2013.[6][7]
See also
References
- ↑ Kiss, Jemima (13 August 2008). "Yahoo launches Fire Eagle location tool". The Guardian.
- ↑ Sathyaish Chakravarthy (13 March 2008). "Fire Eagle Emerging Communications". IT Conversations.
- ↑ MG Siegler (12 August 2008). "Yahoo pushes its location platform Fire Eagle out of the nest so it can spread its wings". VentureBeat.
- ↑ Schofield, Jack (13 August 2008). "Yahoo finally launches Fire Eagle, but you can hide". The Guardian.
- ↑ Boulton, Clint (13 August 2008). "Yahoo Fire Eagle Lands as Location-Aware Platform". eWeek.
- ↑ Tom Coates. "It's a bit sad that @fireeagle has finally gone down. Still, never mind, onwards and upwards.".
- ↑ Fire Eagle (7 February 2013). "Fire Eagle is down at the moment.". Twitter.