Yahoo launched Fire Eagle last fall as a location-based “switch board” of sorts, enabling individual users to take control of the geo-data they’re pushing out across the social web. As developers of sites and applications began using Fire Eagle to extend location-based features to their own end users, we saw in interesting interaction between these three aspects of geo-data as a service such as Fire Eagle actually helped individual users become more comfortable with sharing geo-data.
As Fire Eagle has recently launched an application of its own on Facebook, I interviewed Tom Coates, head of the Fire Eagle project, to learn more about the goals of Fire Eagle and its aims for growth.
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