FireEagle: Location updater for S60 phones

**vishu_nunzio** · #1 (**permalink**) 08-15-2008, 03:52 PM

FireEagle: Location updater for S60 phones

Fire Eagle: Location updater for S60 phones launched

15 August 2008

The Fire Eagle Has Landed:
Yahoo Opens Its Location Platform to All

The Fire EagleYahoo just announced that private beta testing period for its location based platform Fire Eagle has ended and that the service is now open and general availability for everybody.

Fire Eagle is a tool that provides an interface for updating, managing and storing information about locations. The tool can also automatically add the data to geo-aware Web, mobile or desktop applications.

Fire Eagle also provides developers with easy protocols for adding location-based information to any networked service, said Yahoo.

For example, Fire Eagle can help users find the physical location of their friends or of services or local information. The genius of Fire Eagle, and the reason why it will be an enormous success, is its sheer simplicity.

It does absolutely nothing beyond storing your current location, and disseminating it to your choice of sites and applications. Sure there's an API, wrappers for a few languages and some relatively fine-grained user privacy controls, but that's about it. No, actually, that is it.

Fire Eagle, which was built at Yahoo's internal Brickhouse incubator for start-up projects, allows users to authorize automatic updates of their location, or to do it manually. They can also opt to hide their location, change preferences for sharing their location or delete any stored personal information, Yahoo said.

Since its private beta launch in March, Fire Eagle has been integrated into more than 50 live applications, including Dopplr,Pownce, Movable Type and Outside.in, through the platform's API, Yahoo added.

"Fire Eagle allowed us to easily add location data to Pownce using their simple API," said Leah Culver, co-founder of Pownce, in a statement. "Pownce users can now say where they are and geo-tag their notes, which adds a new dimension to the service."
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This a mobile application for updating your location straight from your phone automatically and it supports only GPS enables Nokia S60 devices at the moment and I am happy that Yahoo has recognized the huge potential of the worlds leading Smartphone platform and initially offers mobile client for the S60 devices exclusively.

Nothing more, nothing less to say about, it is a quite simple J2ME mobile application, an updater actually that is tested on GPS equipped Nokia N95 but should work on any other GPS equipped phone you're brave enough to test on.
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I’ve just get it, tested it and to be honest I am a bit disappointed because it is not a native S60 application but it does the job nicely and automatically updates position every X minutes based on the chosen settings. Of course, everything is under control and you can disable GPS and updating if you don’t want to share your current position.