#fireeagle (14 links)
Ace. "It’s just a toolbar thing that sits there, quietly, using Skyhook’s API to triangulate your location from nearby wifi points, pushing it to Fire Eagle. Yes, it’s YAFEU (Yet Another Fire Eagle Updater)."
- Fire Eagle Guest Pass slideshare.net
Presentation on ace Fire Eagle hack.
"There’s something delightfully Wallace and Gromitey about Poke’s BakerTweet, but not content with its floury goodness I decided to hack it around a bit. I’ve put together an app which takes the feed from Albion’s Twitter account, checks for updates, filters them (I’m only really interested in bread), and if (according to Fire Eagle) I’m within a mile of the bakery, sends me an SMS." Beautiful.
- Exporting the past into the future, or, “The Possibility Jelly lives on the hypersurface of the present” « Magical Nihilism magicalnihilism.wordpress.com
"My attitude to most Location-Based Services [...] has been hardened by sitting through umpty-nine presentations by the white-men-in-chinos who maintain a fortune can be made by the first company to reliably send a passer-by a voucher for a cheap coffee as they drift past *bucks." This post is not that.
- Opening Times opening-times.co.uk
"Enter a UK town or postcode to find out when nearby shops are open". Brilliant.
Via kevan.
- Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Introducing Geode labs.mozilla.com
An experimental add-on to explore geolocation in Firefox 3 ahead of the implementation of geolocation in a future product release. Geode provides an early implementation of the W3C Geolocation specification so that developers can begin experimenting with enabling location-aware experiences using Firefox 3 today, and users can tell us what they think of the experience it provides.
Great intro to Fire Eagle from Coates.
- Yahoo! Internet Location Platform - YDN developer.yahoo.com
Provides a resource for managing all geo-permanent named places on Earth.
- i am near iamnear.net
It's really simple. You tell Fire Eagle your location, and we tell you stuff that's near it.
- wikinear.com wikinear.com
wikinear.com shows Wikipedia pages near you, based on your location according to Yahoo! Fire Eagle. The site is optimised for use on a mobile phone.
- wikinear.com, OAuth and Fire Eagle simonwillison.net
- Do you want to broadcast your location? - WhatPC? whatpc.co.uk
In early October, Yahoo’s Tom Coates presented Fire Eagle, a geographic service now in alpha testing that will provide data to location-based internet applications.