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| Mar 1, 2010 | Can Brightkite Beat Foursquare & Gowalla With a Universal Check-in? | Location based social network Brightkite plans to launch a universal check-in API that will let users update their information on competing services like Gowalla, Foursquare and others later this month at South by Southwest, we believe.
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| Mar 17, 2009 | First Came Geo-Awareness, Then Came Geo-Aware Malware | An internet worm that uses social engineering to direct you to a malicious web page is nothing new – that’s just everyday malware. But there is something different about the latest variant of the Waledac worm: it uses geolocation services t... |
| Mar 13, 2009 | Yahoo brings location to Facebook, Firefox; plays catchup | reader comments 4 with 4 posters participating
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Yahoo on Friday put a fresh new spotlight on Fire Eagle, its "project" that dabbles in location-based services (LBS... |
| Mar 13, 2009 | Yahoo's Fire Eagle Soars Onto Facebook, Firefox | This morning Yahoo has released a pair of new applications that tap into Fire Eagle, Yahoo’s ambitious geo-location system that allows a wide variety of web services to share your location data (after being granted permission to do so). The... |
| Feb 27, 2009 | OSLO accord pushes location-sharing between social networks | We’ve had OpenId to make the transport of your ID easier between Web sites. We’ve had initiatives on Data Portability to make it easier for you to move your data around between social networks and other apps. But what we haven’t had yet is ... |
| Feb 15, 2009 | Catching up with Yahoo’s Fire Eagle geolocation service | reader comments 4 with 4 posters participating
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Yahoo's Fire Eagle service offers a way for people to publish and share their location. Fire Eagle was built on the basic pre... |
| Dec 23, 2008 | Top 100 Products of 2008 | Over December we’ve published ten top 10 lists of the top products of 2008. We intend to open these lists up for public voting in 2009, to tap into the wisdom of the intelligent crowd that reads our site. But for now, you’ll have to make do... |
| Dec 21, 2008 | Top 10 Web Platforms of 2008 | 2008 has seen a proliferation of new Web platforms, including a few major ones built using open standards. In this final instalment of our series of top products of 2008, we choose the top 10 Web platforms of the year.
We’ve written a lot o... |
| Dec 2, 2008 | Location-based advertising: Place trumps traditional targeting | [Editor’s note: It’s no secret that online advertising is starting to slow down in response to the economic slump. Display ads, the meat and potatoes for companies like Yahoo, have been hit especially hard. So for companies looking to squee... |
| Nov 3, 2008 | Yahoo! Brickhouse Ends Live Streaming Video Experiment | When Yahoo! launched its live video streaming service, Y! Live, to the world earlier this year, it was admittedly an “experiment in live video” designed to elicit feedback from the market. Today, Yahoo! has decided that the experiment has r... |
| Aug 22, 2008 | Google enters the location ring…with the mobile OS it hopes to destroy | Following the official roll out of Yahoo’s Fire Eagle location-based developer platform ten days ago, a lot of responses seemed to be, “yeah that’s great, but what happens when Google comes out with something similar?” Given Google’s domina... |
| Aug 20, 2008 | 10 Promising Web Platforms | In this post we review 10 promising developer platforms for the Web. We’re not talking about the obvious ones either, like Facebook, iPhone, OpenSocial or even Twitter. Those have been covered extensively already. The list below features so... |
| Aug 16, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup, 11-15 August 2008 | It’s the weekend, so time to review the week’s web tech news, reviews and analysis on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we looked at rising music social network Imeem, reported on Yahoo’s Fire Eagle project, checked in on the latest Web Off... |
| Aug 13, 2008 | Fire Eagle - Where's The Mobile App? | I love the concept of Yahoo’s new Fire Eagle. As Mark Josephson of outside.in said to me the other day:
Fire Eagle is a location wallet
It’s a web service that you can tell where you are at all times and manage what web services get to use ... |
| Aug 13, 2008 | Yahoo's Fire Eagle has landed, offering open mobile services | In March, Yahoo opened the beta of Fire Eagle, its location-based middleware that allows developers to build services tailored to the user's geographic area. Fire Eagle is now open to the public with 22 launch partners providing their servi... |
| Aug 12, 2008 | Fire Eagle's page design looks mighty familiar.. | Fire Eagle, Yahoo’s platform built specifically for storing/broadcasting your current location, opened its doors to the public today. For the first time, any joe off the street can check out what Fire Eagle has to offer. Lets take a lo.. wa... |
| May 13, 2008 | LightPole's Geotagging Comes to Movable Type | Six Apart, creator of the blogging platform Movable Type, has partnered with LightPole, a mobile application provider. The two companies have co-developed a plugin for Movable Type that will allow bloggers to geo-tag their posts, create geo... |
| May 12, 2008 | Here Come the Geo-Smart Apps: Yahoo! Opens Location Database to Developers | Yahoo! today released a developer preview of its Yahoo! Internet Location Platform, a collection of in-depth geo-location based APIs. We expect to see location be more smartly used in many applications around the web thanks to this platform... |
| Apr 28, 2008 | Brightkite Wants to Win the Mobile Social Network Battle (+ Invites for Readers!) | Up-and-coming mobile social network Brightkite faces some serious competition from a myriad of mobile social networks, all of whom are fighting to win the emerging mobile market. However, Brightkite has a few tricks up their sleeve that the... |
| Apr 28, 2008 | Rummble rolls out support for Fire Eagle | Rummble, the mobile and location-based ‘social discovery’ tool, has added a basic integration of Yahoo’s Fire Eagle location data to its service. If you have a Fire Eagle account (it’s in invite-only beta right now) you can allow Rummble to... |
| Apr 22, 2008 | Upcoming.org Founder Creates Fireball (Fire Eagle + DodgeBall + Twitter) | Remember DodgeBall, the early social mobile network that languished after Google bought it? So does Leonard Lin, a founding member of Upcoming.org who recently left Yahoo, where he organized Hack Days. He helped write the code for FireBall,... |
| Mar 14, 2008 | Many phone companies in Silicon Valley? | Plenty of startups are determined to see proof that Apple won’t be Silicon Valley’s only phone company. That was evident at the eComm conference this week on Emerging Communications. I was taken aback by the variety of ideas floated at the ... |
| Mar 14, 2008 | Get a FireEagle invite while they're hot | I have TEN Fire Eagle invites to give out to the hot new location-based application from Yahoo’s Brickhouse ‘skunk works’. To get one, comment on this post with a decent explanation of why you think location-aware web applications are going... |
| Mar 6, 2008 | Fire Eagle launches – want an invite? | UPDATE: The invites have now gone.
I have four Fire Eagle invites to the first four commenters on this post. These are also one-time invitation codes and can’t be reused. No idea what I’m talking about? As you’ll note from Michael Arrington... |
| Mar 5, 2008 | Yahoo's "Twitter For Location" Goes Into Private Beta With Near Zero Functionality | I have big hopes for Yahoo’s new FireEagle platform announced in November 2007. They first described it to me as a Twitter for location. And it does stream your location information in a similar way that Twitter streams short messages. The ... |