Its time for Yahoo! to launch a new product on the www.
Its Yahoo! Fire Eagle (Beta)
Fire eagle is a location-aware platform, can be used by users on internet and mobile. The API can be used to develop location specific mobile applications.
What is Fire Eagle?
According to Yahoo! The tool is of great use if you ( developer) Want to make your website or mobile application more relevant or responsive to a user’s location? Or maybe you’ve found a way to capture user location and want to find cool uses for this info? By doing the heavy lifting for you and connecting you to a community of geo-developers, Fire Eagle makes it easier to build location-aware services.
The Open API tool (Fire Eagle) is of great help to the developers or publishers to gain location information about the end user.
Fire Eagle and the Fire Eagle Developer APIs:
Fire Eagle is a new service designed to make it safe and easy to build and use location-aware applications and services. It’s a place where users can store and manage information about their current location that trusted apps and sites can update or access.
Fire Eagle exposes a rich set of web services that allow developers to write location-aware applications.
Update anywhere:
– Send updates from your phone
– Update from your favorite sites
– Do it automatically or manually
Choose what to share:
– You control your data
– You choose who to share with
Have fun on the web:
– Show your location on your blog
– Share it with your friends
– Discover cool stuff around you
– You choose how much to share
Fire Eagle is a mobile search application in the making and its upto the creativity of the developers to make a good use of it!
