Fire Eagle is a Yahoo!

Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine , Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping ,...

 owned service that acts as a store for a user's location. It was created at Yahoo Brickhouse by a team which included among others Tom Coates

Tom Coates (technologist)

Tom Coates is a technologist and early weblogger based in San Francisco, California who has been writing plasticbag.org since 1999...

, Simon Willison

Simon Willison

Simon Willison is a programmer and co-founder of the social conference directory Lanyrd. Originating from the UK, he is also a consultant on OpenID and client- and server-side Web development, a frequent public speaker and a co-creator of the Django Web framework...

, 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

OAuth

OAuth is an open standard for authorization. It allows users to share their private resources stored on one site with another site without having to hand out their credentials, typically username and password.OAuth allows users to hand out tokens instead of credentials to their data hosted by a...

protocol to connect services together.

External links

• Official website
• jfireeagle library