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Services introduced by Yahoo let users broadcast location

2008-08-15 18:06:51 (GMT) (Caymanmama.com - Technology News)

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Scranton, Pennsylvania (CaymanMama.com) — Yahoo executive Tom Coates recently went to England and met more than 100 of his closest friends. He easily located those friends who happened to be in the the UK and Coates could find them because of Fire Eagle, a brand new database service launched by Yahoo on Tuesday.

The Fire Eagle database scoops up information about real world locations as web crawlers do in swallowing web pages, and dish it out to relevant services which the individual selects. It is like a free platform which hooks data providers with application makers from all over this world and makes work easier.

Coates stated, “Fire Eagle is designed to make every site on the Web, everything that is connected to the network, ‘geoaware’.“ Presently, the Fire Eagle database forms a part of technology which backs many services like Dopplr which is a social network available for frequent travelers. Pownce, which is a substitute for email, is also one such service along with Dopplr social networking services. In the days to come , this database can feed information regarding exact locations of an individual and where one has been to from the online search-engines to the coupon providers and your employers and the HMO.

The geo-location services tend to provoke privacy advocates because they make it easy to track individuals and could endanger the people who tend to be vulnerable to abuse such as women who have been trying escape domestic violence. Beth Givens, the director of Privacy Rights Clearinghouse said, “For individuals who do not want their location to be known, these services could be harmful.”



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