Fire Eagle is now open for everyone

13 Aug 2008

The location broker Fire Eagle from Yahoo is now open to use by everyone - the private beta has ended as of today. Fire Eagle itself doesn't do much besides taking your location and brokering it in various levels of privacy to other services. As far as I know it is currently the biggest user of OAuth and a middle men to many different services. [via]

Posted by Dominik Schwind on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 at 10:54 AM

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