Fireeagle, and how to get an invite

Update: The invite doesn’t work anymore… you might need to try and see if Dropplr gets more invites later on

My blogger, new media professor friend Gab had pinged me yesterday asking for a ‘favour’, turned out that she wanted a fireeagle invite from Yahoo!. I was sad that I didn’t have an invite until this morning wonderful Graham has told me about a workaround.

Sign in to Dopplr, and go to http://www.dopplr.com/account/fireeagle,

Then ‘Click here to get an invitation’, sign in to Yahoo! -*bang* you’re in!

More on FireEagle from TechCrunch,

They first described it to me as a Twitter for location. And it does stream your location information in a similar way that Twitter streams short messages. The service opened into private beta today. But it is also more than that. FireEagle has (well, will have) open APIs to send data in and get data out. That will make a variety of other web services much more useful, since they’ll be able to figure out where you are without asking. Flickr images, for example, can be auto-tagged with location by comparing the time the photo was taken to your location at that time in FireEagle.

Update: For developers, you might want to go ahead and check out the buzz here (FireEagle Group)

And Tom Coates presenting FireEagle:

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