Fire Eagle is is a Yahoo-driven platform forlocation information, according to a post by Mike Butcher on Techcrunch.com. According to Butcher, you can tell it (directly or via a third party application built on FireEagle’s APIs) where you are (give it specific lat/long, or a city name, or a zip code, etc.) and it will note your location. Users with GPS phones could some day set it to periodically update FireEagle with their location information".
However, the Fire Eagle beta currently has next to no functionality - "it’s waiting for an eco-system of applications to be developed around it" - and its invitation only. However, Butcher has 10 invitations to give away. According to Michael Arrington on Techcrunch.com, "you’ll be able to send a text message with your location, or use ZoneTags on Nokia 60 phones to broadcast your location automatically".
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