Tech Me

Fire Eagle eyes you now ..

Yahoo has finally launched what it terms as its “Location Switchboard”, Fire Eagle. Good thing is you don’t need any invitation and it is open for all, just sign up.

Jeannie Yang, the project manager, describes Fire Eagle as

Fire Eagle is about helping you take your location to the Web and giving you control over how, when and with what your location is shared. You choose which applications can share and update your location. You choose how much information you want to share – from as broad as country or state, to as detailed as zip code or cross streets, and everything in between. You choose when and how to update your location.

First impression says its a pretty good application developed with a simple aim of sharing your location with whosoever  you want. You can update the location through various updater applications like My Loki or a J2ME Mobile Updater. Once updated, you can share your location using an array of applications made available. Check out the Application Gallery once you sign up for the service.

It uses Yahoo Maps to display you location. Just one point. It could hardly track me to the street level, best it did was to track me to the city. So a lot to come for users outside US probably. Anyways another interesting service in yahoo’s ever growing service stack.