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46
Fire Eagle
7 CommentsAdam and I put on some Ninja outfits and snuck in and stole away Simon King to talk about Fire Eagle!
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- Part of the Web 2.0 Expo series of podcasts
- Adam drinks Starbucks
- Fire Eagle is in limited beta
- Bright Kite allows fire eagle updates
- Josh might not get the first iPhone 3g
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- Fire Eagle is rails? We had no clue! We swear.
- Github says Ruby is like Dynamic Language #4 in their repositories
- Fire Eagle is using OAuth
- OAuth allows nice fine grained web app permissions for privacy
- Simon said the OAuth stuff wasn’t too bad, despite the spec not being finalized
- Simon said J2ME is painful ;)
- Simon wants to see an easy location updater on his laptop and phone
- Fireball, dodgeball 2.0?
- Tastyplanner shopping list reminders when you get near a store?
- Fire Eagle doesn’t do stale location checking (old data) it leaves it up to the application that is using the Fire Eagle API
- Fire Eagle can take Cell Tower ids and translate that easily to your location
- Fire Eagle “lying” with fake addresses?
- Brickhouse isn’t working on a Fire Eagle location updater for the iPhone 2.0 firmware
- Navizon had a nice iPhone hacked app for location finding
- Simon prefers the standard Yahoo LAMP stack
- The Brickhouse team loves Rails
- Brickhouse is using RSpec
- The laziness plugin will write failing tests for you!
- Working with locations was a bit of a hurdle because it isn’t an exact science
- User data is seperate from location data and the OAuth tokens help do the matching
- Yahoo Legal and Privacy did look over the project and give a nod of approval
- Yahoo Pipes came out of Brickhouse and then moved to another department
- Invites to Fire Eagle are sporadic from their website
- Sadly we ran out of invites, we gave them away on twitter… Guess you should follow it now, eh? :)
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