Fire Eagle opens to public
As some of you know, I’ve been messing with Fire Eagle for some time now already (I was lucky enough to get an invitation) and yesterday I noticed the site went public. That means you, yeah you, can sign up now too.
But what is and does Fire Eagle? Not a whole lot to be frank. It’s basically a broker for your geo-data. It can share your position on earth with a number of other services, like wikinear (see previous post).
I do applaud the initiative of Fire Eagle though. It’s a Yahoo! application and for a change, they didn’t simply buy a company. Nope, they’ve created this themselves! I’m happy to see this and hope the other big players will do the same: be creative, invent new stuff (knol is not innovative at all, to me).
Since the launch of Fire Eagle, quite a few websites have joined the effort and use the API provided. That includes Pownce. The application gallery is growing and I’m really interested to see what other websites will join and be created, inspired by this functionality.
Comments
Comment from B10m
Time: August 15, 2008, 12:07 pm
The reasons for the “privacy nightmare” as they call it are fairly vague. They seem to dislike the idea of sharing geo-data in general. I don’t support their feelings.
As for pownce … why should I?
Comment from BOK
Time: August 15, 2008, 7:53 pm
Why use Pownce? Why mentioning it..? 
I left Twitter because of all the recent downtime and the clutter that left in my httpd-logging.
Comment from B10m
Time: August 16, 2008, 10:30 am
I mentioned it, for it’s a fairly big and popular website with others Twitter is doing fine now for quite some time. No problems here 
Comment from BOK
Time: August 15, 2008, 11:46 am
Eh… Seen on security.nl: “Yahoo Fire Eagle is privacy nachtmerrie”
Ah, nevermind.
When do YOU start using Pownce, b10m?