| URL | http://www.fireeagle.com |
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| Commercial? | Yes |
| Type of site | Location-based services |
| Registration | Required |
| Available language(s) | English |
| Owner | Yahoo! |
| Launched | August 12, 2008 |
Fire Eagle is a Yahoo! owned service that stores a user's location. It was created at Yahoo Brickhouse by a team which included among others Tom Coates, Simon Willison, and Seth Fitzsimmons.
A user can authorize other services and applications to update or access this information via the Fire Eagle API, allowing a user to update their location once and then use it on any Fire Eagle enabled-website.
The Fire Eagle service was one of the first sites to use the OAuth protocol to connect services together.
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