March 23, 2008
wikinear.com, OAuth and Fire Eagle
Simon Willison knocks out a quick prototype showing Wikipedia articles related to your current location, a masterpiece of mashuppery.
March 5, 2008
My first FireEagle query
About 10 lines of Python can now work out my physical location.
Next task, integrate this info into my blog. Task after that? A cool ambient location-setter idea I'm hatching.
Fire Eagle
Fire Eagle has launched — a broker for your physical location, which other applications can use to improve user experiences. It’s really just APIs and geekery at the moment, but the applications that use and enable it will start appearing pretty quickly — I’ve already got a couple of ideas.