Month: March 2008

Had a play with one for the first time the other day down the pub and it was undeniable fun. Looking forward to getting my pink one on Tuesday.

I do get into some trouble for not having much of a sense of humour about gay jokes. This is why.

When a unique person visits it, a new person joins the community. It’s a lovely association to make. In the end, it’s a game about traffic, only it’s assembled in such an elegant form…

Really interesting set of things going on here – stores your auth information in a cookie, which is quite classy. No need to register at all. Shows you your five nearest geotagged places in Wikipedia.

Seems like a lovely piece of work there and in record time. The amount of creative engineering I’m seeing around the place is really cool.

I watched this on stage at SXSW and was totally thrilled about it. Some of the partners we’ve been talking to have been really cool, and Outside.in are definitely among them.

The idea here is that when you return to your desk at home or work, your location will be updated. Lovely little app.

It’s a reasonable point, but it’s worth remembering that this is a developer launch aimed at getting people to build applications against the Fire Eagle APIs. We’ll be showing off some of these very soon.

It’s a bit weird, but there you go!

Samantha Tripodi did the visual layer of design for Fire Eagle and she did an extraordinary job. She and I played for ages with different feels and stories until we found this one. It’s gorgeous.

Our first iPhone location updater! Very exciting! Erica got this up and running in a couple of days (at most) from when she started playing with the API. Very cool.

If you’re interested in Fire Eagle, I think this is the article I’ve read with the most substance.

I’m going to give my perspective on the whole thing soon once my brain de-clenches. He got to thank the team before I did, which is a bit frustrating!

This post really made me happy. It’s such a big deal for us that we work out how to give control back to the people using the service. Seems like we’ve got that at least partly right.

“Users of the PresenceRouter OS X application to fling your Plazes presence about to Jaiku, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Wamadu, Frazr, Nabaztag” and now (alpha support) Fire Eagle!

Stops third party sites asking you to give them your logins. Now they can just get formal permission from you to access contact information instead.

Browser Plus is pretty interesting. At the moment my understanding of it is pretty slight. I need to dig further into that one.

It just allows you to update your location from a widget, but it was also put together in just a couple of hours which gives you some sense of how hard Fire Eagle is to develop against.

Want to update your location with Twitter? Now you can. Jesse did a version of Danger Day for the very first public alpha of Fire Eagle last year. Lovely to see him back with us again!

My particular favourite line is about the “Twitter for Location” description. I really hate that one too. I don’t think it explains what we made at all well.

The thing I’m most proud of, I think, is that the quality of the team really shines through in the thing we made. However well it goes as a project, I think it’s a classy thing.

Really looks pretty fascinating. Moreover, the picture of Jon Pertwee is wonderful. Explore! Explore!

Nice and short. Ten minutes. I want to do more talks that length, I think. It looks like I came across reasonably well, anyway!

I really think is worth talking about why we didn’t do a social network. Lots of services manage the social graph and Fire Eagle can be hybridised with all of them. Why would we make the effort?

As is probably obvious, I’m collating a number of the posts about Fire Eagle that have turned up in the last day or so. I really like Matt’s – it gets some of the weird out-there potential.