Will Yahoo Take Advantage? Fire Eagle.

At Yahoo Brickhouse today, the company released the general availability of Fire Eagle, the location-based platform that enables developers to build applications and integrate its location-based tools into your existing service. That means you can allow your users to insert their own location whenever necessary and Fire Eagle can track it for location-aware services, or you can enable GPS for a more automated process that works with users that have supported devices.

Privacy is of course a major concern for Fire Eagle, as it allows you to update your location across any authenticated partner site. So you can think of Fire Eagle as a centralized service that knows your location, and sends out updates to its participating sites that you have authorized.