Fireeagle
March 05, 2008
I'm information overloaded and keeping a couple of draft posts to polish when I have time but this is worth mentioning now(). Fireeagle just started sending invitations to everyone. Tom Coates is presenting the project as I write. "Fire Eagle is the secure and stylish way to share your location with sites and services online while giving you unprecedented control over data and privacy. We're here to make the whole web respond to your location and help you to discover more about the world around you".Although it seems a response to Google's MyLocation on the surface, it's actually a lot more, it's open and you can use it in your website through provided APIs. Dopplr will be the first Website to use Fireeagle.
Something to keep an eye on.
Also, I've been busy posting websites as I grab them. Check my bookmarks RSS feed.
The best thing so far was discovering they're adopting OAuth as authorization protocol which will give you A LOT of control as to who has access to your information and how accurate they'll get it.
Pretty impressive stuff! Now I just need to start travelling a lot more so that I can use it properly.
(Oh and I got my invite through Dopplr's Blog, but they're fresh out of invites. Bummer.)
Thursday, March 6. 2008 at 14:55 (Link) (Reply)