Yahoo Friends on Fire - a new competitor of Google Latitude
March 18, 2009, 5:53 pm
In Yahoo recently been active in various innovations and for those who wish to share their location with friends, the company has developed a service Friends on Fire, which at first glance it seems like Google Latitude. Tools from Google really like Friends on Fire, but uses for his work solely to the design and technology to determine the location of the user and to control access to this information. The development of Yahoo is just the absence of that, so to speak, closed. Friends on Fire can be used in conjunction with the service Fire Eagle, which allows to store and share location with the authorized applications, and even Facebook. In this case, caring about who display the location, and who - no, not to himself Facebook. How will the case with Yahoo Friends on Fire - show time, but the prospects are intriguing.