Yahoo's Fire Eagle knows where you are

Yahoo is turning its attention towards location based services with a new bit of software by the name of Fire Eagle, designed to help those with a fondness for social networking and the like to store and share their location information and settings only with those services they see fit.

it’s a web platform, so users can access it over their PC as well as their mobile and developers can build applications on top of it – apparently over 55 have already been built during Fire Eagle’s beta phase (the developer site is here.)

Privacy issues have always dogged location based services, so Yahoo gets extra bonus points for building features into Fire Eagle that let users govern who gets to know where they are at any point in time. Extra bonus points for allowing people to be able to delete their info – too many web companies are holding on to data they shouldn’t be.