IndustryYahoo Launches Location-Based Open Source Application, Fire Eagle

Yahoo Launches Location-Based Open Source Application, Fire Eagle

fireeagle.jpgWith the onslaught of the iPhone and the increasing popularity of mobile search and social networking, platforms that aid the development of location-based applications are highly useful to the process.

Yahoo is throwing its hat into the ring with the release of a new open source program, FireEagle. Yahoo sees FireEagle as making geo-location apps easier for developers by eliminating the need to build the location-aware infrastructure. Users will benefit from the ability to turn on and off the location-aware feature.

“Fire Eagle is about making everything on the Internet more useful, fun or interesting by adding the element of location,” said Tom Coates, head of product at Yahoo! Brickhouse. “We’re here to help people take their location to the Web by giving them the ability to control how much detail about their location they want to share and which applications they want to share it with.”

You can check out FireEagle here.

What do you think about FireEagle? Let us know in the comments.

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