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First Details, Screenshots of the Fire Eagle Launch

Janko Roettgers, Wednesday, March 5, 2008 at 11:30 AM PT Comments (2)

Fire Eagle lead developer Tom Coates just announced at the ETech conference that Yahoo is launching Fire Eagle for developers today. Fire Eagle is meant to be a location broker that collects location information from a variety of services and devices and makes them available to other platforms. Fire Eagle offers open APIs both for [...]

Yahoo’s FireEagle Is Going Beta

Janko Roettgers, Wednesday, March 5, 2008 at 7:28 AM PT Comments (1)

Yahoo’s location based service enabler FireEagle is entering it’s beta testing phase today with an official announcement at ETech. The new web site of the service is still featuring an invite form, just as the alpha version did, so it might still be a limited beta test, or maybe someone still has to flip the [...]

Forrester’s Li: If I Were Mark Zuckerberg

Janko Roettgers, Monday, March 3, 2008 at 1:56 PM PT Comments (8)

Forrester Research analyst Charlene Li, the first keynote speaker of the two-day Graphing Social Patterns West conference that started today in San Diego, said that if she held the keys to the Facebook empire, she would make the social graph open. “Not just the applications,” she told me, “but I would make it Facebook everywhere.”
Her [...]

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