9 month ago
plasticbag : Fire Eagle - Easily share your location online! Personalise lots of sites and services! - We've just launched. I couldn't be more excited about this. 10,000 invitation codes are out in public right now and we're going to be announcing it formally on stage at ETech in an hour or so.
Simon Willison : Welcome to Fire Eagle! - Welcome to Fire Eagle!. It’s launched! A service and accompanying API for saving your physical location and selectively sharing it with applications that you trust.
Rod Begbie : Fire Eagle - Fire Eagle has launched -- a broker for your physical location, which other applications can use to improve user experiences. It's really just APIs and geekery at the moment, but the applications that use and enable it will start appearing pretty quickly #
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11 month ago
plasticbag : TechCrunch talks about Bravo Nation (a Yahoo! Brickhouse launch) and doesn't really get on with it terribly well - I've obviously played with Bravo and I think Arrington is missing something here. The service is, above all, characterful and fun. It's still developing but if it keeps that character as it goes I think it could easily find an audience.
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11 month ago
plasticbag : Interesting news if you live in my tiny world - Chad Dickerson is to take over Yahoo Advanced Products from Scott Gatz, bringing him into extreme proximity with the Brickhouse team... - Perhaps this is of niche interest, but I've always wanted to work with Chad again after our time in Techdev together, and the Hack Day London we organised with that nice chap from the BBC. All that stuff. Yay.
Jeremy Zawodny : A new role at Yahoo! - A new role at Yahoo!: Chad's moving on but staying in the family. Good for him!
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plasticbag : Fire Eagle and Brickhouse make Business Week - The recent press around Fire Eagle has been pretty interesting. It's always interesting to see where they get some of the facts wrong. Helps me work out where we've not got it quite right yet.
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17 month ago
deusx : Elatable | Bradley Horowitz » Blog Archive » Marc Andreessen on Employee Retention… - "We’re like the roadies, building the stage, working the soundboards, the spotlights, etc. We also provide a “house band” of super talented session musicians. But it’s the Yahoos (i.e. everyone else) who gets to climb up on stage and shine. &
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