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Fire Eagle
Fire Eagle was a Yahoo! owned service that stores a user's location and shares it with other authorized services. It was created by a team which included among others Tom Coates, Simon Willison and Mor Naaman. A user could authorize other services and applications to update or access this information via the Fire Eagle API, 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 Pownce, Dopplr, Brightkite and Movable Type. The Fire Eagle service was one of the first sites to use the OAuth protocol to connect services together. The service shut down in February 2013.
Article summary
Fire Eagle was a Yahoo! owned service that stores a user's location and shares it with other authorized services. It was created by a team which included among others Tom Coates, Simon Willison and Mor Naaman. A user could authorize other services and applications to update or access this information via the Fire Eagle API, 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 Pownce, Dopplr, Brightkite and Movable Type. The Fire Eagle service was one of the first sites to use the OAuth protocol to connect services together. The service shut down in February 2013.
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- Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
- Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
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