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Location Aware: Smart Rollout for Yahoo! Fire Eagle (readwriteweb.com)
3 points by cawel on March 6, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Yahoo has probably learned from the privacy issues that Facebook's Beacon has gone through.

Plus, in the context of the probable Microsoft takeover, it reminds us how different the cultures between Microsoft and Yahoo are: Yahoo being naturally more committed to open standards.


checked out the API, seemed pretty solid. Not that I know much about APIs, but in that I could get a hello world (aka, find my location) within 20 minutes.




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