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Fire Eagle - A Where Are They Now? Location Broker Platform

Evan Henshaw-Plath (tbd)
11:45 Thursday, 8 May 2008
Open data Goldsmiths 1
Chair: Michael(tm) Smith (W3C)

Fire Eagle is a new service designed to make it safe and easy to build and use location-aware applications and services. It’s a place for users to store information about their current location that trusted apps and sites can update or access.

The talk covers how Fire Eagle works and how to use it to build a fire eagle client application oauth and RESTful web services to share user locations.

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Evan Henshaw-Plath

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Evan ‘Rabble’ Henshaw-Plath is the co-author of the upcoming Testing and Debugging Ruby on Rails from O’Reilly. He is currently working at Yahoo! Brickhouse and was architect and developer for the podcasting startup odeo.com. He has been doing rails development since the first release of rails in July 2004. He blogs about technology and politics at anarchogeek.com. With Fire Eagle he’s worked to launch the first public ruby on rails site at Yahoo!