Fire Eagle
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Fire Eagle was a Yahoo! owned service that stores a user's location and shares it with other authorized services.[1] It was created by a team which included among others Tom Coates, Simon Willison and Mor Naaman.
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Website type | Location-based services |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Yahoo! |
| Website | www |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Required |
| Launched | August 12, 2008 (beta March 2007) |
| Current status | Closed February 2013 |
A user could 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 intention of Fire Eagle was to serve as a central broker for location data.[2] Services which supported Fire Eagle included Pownce, Dopplr, Brightkite and Movable Type.[3][4]
The Fire Eagle service was one of the first sites to use the OAuth protocol to connect services together.[citation needed]
The service shut down in February 2013.[5]
