Posts from May 2008

Fire Eagle - Yahoo's location service

Yahoo! recently launched a beta of their new Fire Eagle service and thanks to the kindness of Simon I managed to snag an invite code.

Screen grab of the main Fire Eagle page

The main Fire Eagle page

The simple concept behind Fire Eagle is that it's a web service that stores your geographical location. That's it. There are no other fancypants features to get in the way of the central message, everything else is left as an exercise for third parties.

Like Twitter, Fire Eagle straddles a blurry line between a website and an API. The site itself offers very little - a box to write your location in, and a map showing the last known location (see picture).

New blog

I've been blogging about personal stuff on LiveJournal for a few years now, but I've become more and more disillusioned with using third-party blogging, and the 'audience' there isn't that interested in anything technical.

Because of that I've decided to start blogging about tech issues here on my own site starting today - I hope to add a few more bloggish features like tags/comments/permalinks, but frankly I figured I'd just get obsessed making that work and not write anything.