Fire Eagle comes to Facebook
Posted March 13th, 2009 at 6:00 am by Tom Coates, Fire Eagle
2 Comments / Filed in: Trends & News
I love it when you run into friends on the street. You don’t have to make plans. You don’t have to get organized. You just get to catch up with each other and chat. And it’s even better when running into someone on the street turns into an excuse for a coffee, or a drink, or a meal.
So what if you could make those kinds of little events happen more often? Wouldn’t it be great if — when you were sitting at home or in your office — you could see your friends in the neighborhood? Maybe you could even see if one of them was interested in finding a snack for lunch!
Yahoo! has a way for you to do just that. We’ve made an application called Friends on Fire that brings together Facebook and our Fire Eagle project to help you quickly and easily share your location with your trusted friends. And you can post little messages on the map, too, to recommend bars or restaurants, or to suggest meeting up for a beer!
We like to describe Fire Eagle as a place to store information about your location. You can get your location into Fire Eagle by using all kinds of different Fire Eagle updaters — from iPhones to websites. And then — if you want — you can choose to share your location with all kinds of applications all over the Internet. There are over 70 different applications in our gallery at the moment, and more appearing every day. We also give you control over how much you choose to share with these different applications. You can choose to share your cross-street or your country, you can hide yourself from everyone, and, of course, you can change your preferences at any time.
In addition to Friends on Fire, we’re also launching a new way to update Fire Eagle — a Firefox extension that adds a button to your toolbar. With one click, your location is instantly shared with your trusted friends on your favorite services.
And finally, for the developers among us, we have three new announcements that you can read about over on the Yahoo! Developer Network blog.
In the meantime, we hope to see you guys trying out the Facebook app! And don’t hesitate to let us know what you think about it — we love to get your feedback.
Tom Coates
Head of Fire Eagle
Tagged: fire eagle, news
2 Comments Add your own
Dave++ | March 14th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Dear CEO Of Yahoo,
I have been having problems lately and even before.
It came to my attention that it seems like it’s easier to change the password by using alternate email(s), is it possible to make the page ask for the full information before they can obtain a new password for the Yahoo ID the wanted to retrieve.
For some reason people been obtaining new password using the old alternate email address which I believe when a certain Yahoo ID gets deleted/recreated after certain months, Yahoo Inc’s data base info don’t get totally deleted.
I have bought a new PC to really see how secure my Yahoo ID from others who were trying to steal it from me. Even though the info to that particular ID is hard to guess and they still manage to steal it.
Please CEO Of Yahoo make the password retrieve ask for the full info of the ID they want to retrieve, rather than just the alternate email(s).
Yours sincerely,
Dave (A Yahoo Fanatic)
sikiş | April 24th, 2009 at 7:22 am
lol facebook :) good blog
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