Yahoo announces Fire Eagle developer platform

Yahoo is making its Fire Eagle geo-platform available to all developers today. The new platform is an example of the work that Yahoo in particular, but also other web giants, are doing to facilitate the development of applications through the release of useful tools that reduce developer effort.

Fire Eagle allows developers to build applications that can determine a user’s location, and also support the registration of location information in a secure way to other applications. This area will be closely watched by many because it presents some risk of being exploited by stalkers or online predators.

We note here that CIMI Corporation is working with Yahoo in the integration of Yahoo APIs with our ExperiaSphere effort. See our progress on the ExperiaSphere website (http://www.experiasphere.wikispaces.com).