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| name = Fire Eagle

| logo = [[File:Fe logo small.png|Fire Eagle logo]]

| type = [[Social networkLocation-based serviceservices]]

| commercial = Yes

'''Fire Eagle''' was a [[Yahoo!]] owned service that stores a user's location and shares it with other authorized services.<ref>{{Cite web |url=httphttps://www.guardian.cotheguardian.ukcom/media/2008/aug/13/yahoo.digitalmedia |title=Yahoo launches Fire Eagle location tool |firstauthor=Jemima|last= Kiss |date=13 August 2008 |publisherwork=[[The Guardian]] }}</ref> It was created at Yahoo Brickhouse by a team which included among others [[Tom Coates (technologist)|Tom Coates]], [[Simon Willison]], Jeannie H. Yang,and [[Mor Naaman, Seth Fitzsimmons, Simon King, and Chris Martin]].

A user could authorize other services and applications to update or access this information via the Fire Eagle [[API]], allowing a user to update their location once and then use it on any Fire Eagle enabled-website. The intention of Fire Eagle was to serve as a central broker for location data.<ref>{{Cite web |url=httphttps://venturebeat.com/2008/08/12/yahoo-pushes-its-location-platform-fire-eagle-out-of-the-nest-so-it-can-spread-its-wings/ |title=Yahoo pushes its location platform Fire Eagle out of the nest so it can spread its wings |author=MG Siegler |publisherwork=[[VentureBeat]] |date=12 August 2008 }}</ref> Services which supported Fire Eagle included [[Pownce]], [[Dopplr]], [[Brightkite]] and [[MoveableMovable Type]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=httphttps://www.guardiantheguardian.co.ukcom/technology/blog/2008/aug/13/yahoofinallylaunchesfireea|title=Yahoo finally launches Fire Eagle, but you can hide |firstauthor=Jack Schofield |lastauthorlink=Jack Schofield (journalist) |date=13 August 2008 |publisherwork=[[The Guardian]] }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Yahoo-Fire-Eagle-Lands-as-LocationAware-Platform/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130629040617/http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Yahoo-Fire-Eagle-Lands-as-LocationAware-Platform/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 29, 2013 |title=Yahoo Fire Eagle Lands as Location-Aware Platform |firstauthor=Clint|last= Boulton |publisherwork=eWeek |date=13 August 2008 }}</ref>

The Fire Eagle service was one of the first sites to use the [[OAuth]] protocol to connect services together.{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}

FireThe Eagleservice hasshut closed asdown ofin February 2013.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/tomcoates/status/303600519199473665 |title=It's a bit sad that @fireeagle has finally gone down. Still, never mind, onwards and upwards. |author=Tom Coates |authorlink=Tom Coates }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://twitter.com/fireeagle/status/299632897667760128 |title=Fire Eagle is down at the moment. |publisher=Fire Eagle |via=[[Twitter]] |date=7 February 2013 }}</ref>

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