3333 Coyote Hill Road
Palo Alto, California 94304

WCA LBS SIG
Introduction To Yahoo Fire Eagle: A User-Location Platform For The Web
Venue: Palo Alto Research Center, Pake Auditorium

-- Mor Naaman, Yahoo Inc.

Yahoo's Fire Eagle is a cutting-edge effort to better integrate location into web and mobile applications through a set of simple but powerful APIs. Using Fire Eagle applications can securely update or query a user's location based on the user's permission. At the same time, Fire Eagle provides the user with flexible control over their data and privacy. Mor Naaman of Stanford's InfoLab and Yahoo will provide an insights into this exciting technology.

Cost: $10 at the door

Official Website: http://www.wca.org/sig/lbs

Added by Sparqi on November 26, 2007

Comments

rickschmoo

Mor is one of the best speakers I know. Make sure you ask good probing questions.

Sparqi

Hi all,

If you're watching this event thread just wanted to say we're looking forward to seeing you at PARC later today. Promises to be a great event.

Regards,

...dtw

David, the WCA SIG VP dude