Fire Eagle was a

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owned service that stores a user's location and shares it with other authorized services. It was created at Yahoo! Brickhouse by a team which included among others Evan Henshaw-Plath, Tom Coates,

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, Jeannie H. Yang, Mor Naaman, Seth Fitzsimmons, Simon King, and Chris Martin. A user could authorize other services and applications to update or access this information via the Fire Eagle

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, allowing a user to update their location once and then use it on any Fire Eagle enabled-website. The intention of Fire Eagle was to serve as a central broker for location data. Services which supported Fire Eagle included

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and

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. The Fire Eagle service was one of the first sites to use the

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protocol to connect services together. Fire Eagle has closed as of February 2013.

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