Review: Fire Eagle Pinpoints Your Location with Precision

Luis Sandoval — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:45:19 +0000

Fire Eagle, a Yahoo property, has opened up its doors from beta to public use. After spending some lengthy time in development and beta, Fire Eagle looks to answer the question…Where Are You?

For starters do not mistake Fire Eagle for another social network, it is not. Fire Eagle works in conjunction with a variety of other social networks with new additions being worked on daily. This enhancement allows users of specific networks to know where you are, provided you update. Fire Eagle takes the address, location, or name of the place you are at and creates a map that others can see.

I have attached Fire Eagle to work with BrightKite and so far it’s been amazing. I’ve set up alerts to notify me when my friends are nearby, and I can always look at maps to see where my friends are worldwide, a very nice effect. Of course this app is made even more useful by allowing you input your location from your mobile device.

It’s great to set up impromptu meetings, a quick happy hour with friends in the neighborhood, or finding directions to where your friend is waiting for you.

Fire Eagle works with the following applications:

BrightKite
Dash
Dipity
Dopplr
eKit
Fire Widget
J2ME mobile updater
Lightpole
Loki
Map My Tracks
Metosphere
Movable Type
Navizon
Outalot
Outside.in
Plazes
Pownce
Rummble
Spot
Wikinear
Zkout
Zonetag

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Review: Fire Eagle Pinpoints Your Location with Precision