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Fire Eagle
Fire Eagle logo
Type of site
Location-based services
Available inEnglish
OwnerYahoo!
URLhttp://www.fireeagle.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationRequired

Fire Eagle was a Yahoo! owned service that stores a user's location. It was created at Yahoo Brickhouse by a team which included among others Tom Coates, Simon Willison, Jeannie H. Yang, Mor Naaman, Seth Fitzsimmons, Simon King, and Chris Martin.

A user can 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 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 [1].

See also

References

  1. ^ Tom Coates. "It's a bit sad that @fireeagle has finally gone down. Still, never mind, onwards and upwards".


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