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Yahoo finally brought out its Fire Eagle from the kiln and made it available for the general audience. Fire Eagle is an open platform that assists users to take their location to the web and at the same time enabling them to control how and where their location data is shared.

The system enables you to let your users put in their location and Fire Eagle can pin point it for location-sorting services. You also have a privilege to enable GPS that would help automate the entire process. This means that users can store and organize every bit of information they have while the developers make use of protocols that let them update and access the information. Being an Open Platform, it enables any network service to make use of Fire Eagle and correspond accordingly to user location.

Tom Croates, head of product at Yahoo! Brickhouse said:

Fire Eagle is about making everything on the Internet more useful, fun or interesting by adding the element of location. We’re here to help people take their location to the Web by giving them the ability to control how much detail about their location they want to share and which applications they want to share it with.

Fire Eagle gives a pretty good edge to both users and developers as it pulls off the cost that comes at producing and managing such a system, giving tem mobility and a complete control to decide what to share and what not. It already had quite a lot of applications build upon it during its beta stage and some of them include; Dipity, Doppler, Lightpole and even Outside.in that utilized it for its Radar application.