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Bright New Thing - Fire Eagle

Fire Eagle is an amalgamation of Twitter and Wikipedia – on steroids. Created by Yahoo!’s Brickhouse, it provides a GPS service for the average Joe by storing a user’s location information.

With the help of user interfaces such as Dopplr, Twitter, and Facebook, it allows the subscriber to share their current location at any given time. Location details can be updated by using a variety of services and applications such as; social networking applications, mobile devices, RSS feeds, GPS systems, WiFi, etc.

The service extends beyond simply tracking one’s location; it takes things a step further by allowing to subscribers to see if their friends are in the same area, or whether they will be in the same city. Also, by using Wikipedia, subscribers can read up on nearby landmarks, as well as view images taken in the area.

Subscribers can control the type of information they want to go out and who it goes out to. Updates can be both manual and automatic, and with the numerous methods with which to generate those updates they have freedom to choose a method that suits them.



The added benefit of getting to know the environment around them, and being able to locate friends – making planning of social activities easier, are a further bonus sure to change the misconception that technology renders us unsociable, making us unaware of any environment beyond our keyboard.



Website:

www.fireeagle.yahoo.net/