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Tom Taylor’s full transcript and slides for his recent talk at Oxford Geek Night—talks about Twitter bots, wikinear, iamnear.net and various other small but neat data repurposing projects.</p> <p class="date-and-tags"><a href="/2008/Jul/1/delighting/" rel="bookmark">#</a> <a href="/2008/Jul/1/">1st July 2008</a>, <a href="/2008/Jul/1/delighting/">1:24 pm</a> / <a href="/tags/wikinear/">wikinear</a>, <a href="/tags/iamnear/">iamnear</a>, <a href="/tags/fireeagle/">fireeagle</a>, <a href="/tags/tom-taylor/">tom-taylor</a>, <a href="/tags/oxfordgeeknight/">oxfordgeeknight</a></p> </div> <div class="blogmark segment" data-type="blogmark" data-id="3842"> <p><strong><a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/">Yahoo! Internet Location Platform</a></strong>. As an ex-Yahoo! this is really exciting—WhereOnEarth (a London company acquired by Yahoo! in 2005) provide the incredibly detailed geographical data used by Flickr, Upcoming and FireEagle—and now it’s available as an external API.</p> <p class="date-and-tags"><a href="/2008/May/12/yahoo/" rel="bookmark">#</a> <a href="/2008/May/12/">12th May 2008</a>, <a href="/2008/May/12/yahoo/">9:02 pm</a> / <a href="/tags/fireeagle/">fireeagle</a>, <a href="/tags/apis/">apis</a>, <a href="/tags/location/">location</a>, <a href="/tags/flickr/">flickr</a>, <a href="/tags/geocoding/">geocoding</a>, <a href="/tags/upcoming/">upcoming</a>, <a href="/tags/whereonearth/">whereonearth</a>, <a href="/tags/yahoo/">yahoo</a></p> </div> <div class="blogmark segment" data-type="blogmark" data-id="3807"> <p><strong><a href="http://blog.plazes.com/?p=220">Plazes adds Fire Eagle Support</a></strong>. The Plazer software can now automatically update your location in FireEagle based on fingerprinting your laptop’s local network.</p> <p class="date-and-tags"><a href="/2008/Apr/22/plazes/" rel="bookmark">#</a> <a href="/2008/Apr/22/">22nd April 2008</a>, <a href="/2008/Apr/22/plazes/">1:02 am</a> / <a href="/tags/plazes/">plazes</a>, <a href="/tags/location/">location</a>, <a href="/tags/fireeagle/">fireeagle</a></p> </div> <div class="blogmark segment" data-type="blogmark" data-id="3780"> <p><strong><a href="http://www.iamnear.net/">i am near</a></strong> (<a href="http://www.tomtaylor.co.uk/blog/2008/04/03/i-am-near/" title="Tom Taylor">via</a>) Inspired by wikinear.com and powered by FireEagle, currently just showing nearby pubs from OpenStreetMap but with more stuff planned. I love the URL scheme—pubs.iamnear.net.</p> <p class="date-and-tags"><a href="/2008/Apr/4/am/" rel="bookmark">#</a> <a href="/2008/Apr/4/">4th April 2008</a>, <a href="/2008/Apr/4/am/">7:53 am</a> / <a href="/tags/pubs/">pubs</a>, <a href="/tags/fireeagle/">fireeagle</a>, <a href="/tags/openstreetmap/">openstreetmap</a>, <a href="/tags/iamnear/">iamnear</a>, <a href="/tags/tom-taylor/">tom-taylor</a>, <a href="/tags/urls/">urls</a>, <a href="/tags/wikinear/">wikinear</a></p> </div> <div class="blogmark segment" data-type="blogmark" data-id="3767"> <p><strong><a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/03/sharing-my-location-just-the-w.html">Sharing My Location Just the Way I Like It</a></strong>. Fire Eagle gets a great write-up from Brady Forrest over on the O’Reilly Radar.</p> <p class="date-and-tags"><a href="/2008/Mar/31/sharing/" rel="bookmark">#</a> <a href="/2008/Mar/31/">31st March 2008</a>, <a href="/2008/Mar/31/sharing/">8:34 pm</a> / <a href="/tags/oreilly/">oreilly</a>, <a href="/tags/oreillyradar/">oreillyradar</a>, <a href="/tags/fireeagle/">fireeagle</a>, <a href="/tags/location/">location</a>, <a href="/tags/wikinear/">wikinear</a>, <a href="/tags/brady-forrest/">brady-forrest</a></p> </div> <div class="blogmark segment" data-type="blogmark" data-id="3746"> <p><strong><a href="https://github.com/SteveMarshall/fire-eagle-python-binding/tree/master">fireeagle_api.py</a></strong>. Steve Marshall’s Fire Eagle python binding on GitHub.</p> <p class="date-and-tags"><a href="/2008/Mar/22/stevemarshalls/" rel="bookmark">#</a> <a href="/2008/Mar/22/">22nd March 2008</a>, <a href="/2008/Mar/22/stevemarshalls/">11:57 pm</a> / <a href="/tags/github/">github</a>, <a href="/tags/steve-marshall/">steve-marshall</a>, <a href="/tags/fireeagle/">fireeagle</a>, <a href="/tags/python/">python</a></p> </div> <div class="blogmark segment" data-type="blogmark" data-id="3744"> <p><strong><a href="https://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/655/">views.py for wikinear.com</a></strong> (<a href="https://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/edit/655/" title="Django snippets: Log in">via</a>) I’ve published the views.py file from wikinear.com as an example of simple Fire Eagle integration with a Django application.</p> <p class="date-and-tags"><a href="/2008/Mar/22/views/" rel="bookmark">#</a> <a href="/2008/Mar/22/">22nd March 2008</a>, <a href="/2008/Mar/22/views/">7:23 pm</a> / <a href="/tags/fireeagle/">fireeagle</a>, <a href="/tags/django/">django</a>, <a href="/tags/python/">python</a>, <a href="/tags/django-snippets/">django-snippets</a>, <a href="/tags/wikinear/">wikinear</a></p> </div> <div class="entry segment" data-type="entry" data-id="1575"> <h3><a href="/2008/Mar/22/wikinear/" rel="bookmark">wikinear.com, OAuth and Fire Eagle</a></h3> <p> <p>I’m pleased to announce <a href="http://wikinear.com/">wikinear.com</a>. It’s a simple site that does just one thing: show you a list of the five Wikipedia pages that are geographically closest to your current location. It’s designed (or not-designed) to be used mainly from mobile phones.</p> <span style="font-size: 0.9em">[... <a href="/2008/Mar/22/wikinear/">1,190 words</a>]</span> </p> <div class="entryFooter"> <a href="/2008/Mar/22/wikinear/" title="Permalink for "wikinear.com, OAuth and Fire Eagle"">2:34 pm</a> / <a href="/2008/Mar/22/">22nd March 2008</a> / <a href="/tags/django/">django</a>, <a href="/tags/fireeagle/">fireeagle</a>, <a href="/tags/geonames/">geonames</a>, <a href="/tags/google-maps/">google-maps</a>, <a href="/tags/oauth/">oauth</a>, <a href="/tags/wikinear/">wikinear</a>, <a href="/tags/wikipedia/">wikipedia</a> </div> </div>  <div class="blogmark segment" data-type="blogmark" data-id="3710"> <p><strong><a href="http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/">Welcome to Fire Eagle!</a></strong> It’s launched! A service and accompanying API for saving your physical location and selectively sharing it with applications that you trust.</p> <p class="date-and-tags"><a href="/2008/Mar/5/welcome/" rel="bookmark">#</a> <a href="/2008/Mar/5/">5th March 2008</a>, <a href="/2008/Mar/5/welcome/">7:05 pm</a> / <a href="/tags/fireeagle/">fireeagle</a>, <a href="/tags/yahoo/">yahoo</a>, <a href="/tags/location/">location</a>, <a href="/tags/api/">api</a></p> </div> <h3 class="blog-mixed-list-year">2007</h3> <div class="blogmark segment" data-type="blogmark" data-id="3539"> <p><strong><a href="http://www.cultureby.com/trilogy/2007/12/fire-foxes-fire.html">Fire foxes, fire eagles, fire dogs: myth in a new media world</a></strong> (<a href="http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2007/12/links_for_20071215/" title="Tom Coates">via</a>) Entertaining over-analysis of Fire Eagle, the code name for Yahoo!’s soon-to-be-released geo location broker. It’s actually named after Ze Frank’s Ride The Fire Eagle Danger Day, as any Sports Racer would know.</p> <p class="date-and-tags"><a href="/2007/Dec/15/fireeagle/" rel="bookmark">#</a> <a href="/2007/Dec/15/">15th December 2007</a>, <a href="/2007/Dec/15/fireeagle/">12:25 pm</a> / <a href="/tags/sportsracer/">sportsracer</a>, <a href="/tags/ze-frank/">ze-frank</a>, <a href="/tags/fireeagle/">fireeagle</a>, <a href="/tags/yahoo/">yahoo</a>, <a href="/tags/naming/">naming</a>, <a href="/tags/ridethefireeagledangerday/">ridethefireeagledangerday</a></p> </div> <div class="blogmark segment" data-type="blogmark" data-id="3030"> <p><strong><a href="http://blog.johnmckerrell.com/2007/06/17/what-i-did-at-hack-day/">What I did at Hack Day</a></strong>. John McKerrell made a tool for updating your FireEagle location through a DNS query, useful for sneaking around for-pay WiFi nodes.</p> <p class="date-and-tags"><a href="/2007/Jun/19/blog/" rel="bookmark">#</a> <a href="/2007/Jun/19/">19th June 2007</a>, <a href="/2007/Jun/19/blog/">10:32 am</a> / <a href="/tags/wifi/">wifi</a>, <a href="/tags/dns/">dns</a>, <a href="/tags/john-mckerrell/">john-mckerrell</a>, <a href="/tags/fireeagle/">fireeagle</a>, <a href="/tags/hackdaylondon/">hackdaylondon</a></p> </div> <div class="blogmark segment" data-type="blogmark" data-id="3029"> <p><strong><a href="http://fireeagle.research.yahoo.com/">FireEagle</a></strong>. Location broker API, launched at Hack Day London. I worked on an early version of this before leaving Yahoo! back in January—great to see it out.</p> <p class="date-and-tags"><a href="/2007/Jun/19/fireeagle/" rel="bookmark">#</a> <a href="/2007/Jun/19/">19th June 2007</a>, <a href="/2007/Jun/19/fireeagle/">10:30 am</a> / <a href="/tags/fireeagle/">fireeagle</a>, <a href="/tags/yahoo/">yahoo</a>, <a href="/tags/hackdaylondon/">hackdaylondon</a></p> </div> </div>  <div id="secondary"> <div class="metabox"> <p><strong>Related</strong></p> <a class="item-tag" href="/tags/yahoo/" rel="tag"> yahoo <span>106</span> </a> <a class="item-tag" href="/tags/wikinear/" rel="tag"> wikinear <span>6</span> </a> <a class="item-tag" href="/tags/location/" rel="tag"> location <span>14</span> </a> <a class="item-tag" href="/tags/django/" rel="tag"> django <span>569</span> </a> <a class="item-tag" href="/tags/oauth/" rel="tag"> oauth <span>53</span> </a> <a class="item-tag" href="/tags/iamnear/" rel="tag"> iamnear <span>2</span> </a> <a class="item-tag" href="/tags/tom-taylor/" rel="tag"> tom-taylor <span>3</span> </a> <a class="item-tag" href="/tags/python/" rel="tag"> python <span>1137</span> </a> <a class="item-tag" href="/tags/hackdaylondon/" rel="tag"> hackdaylondon <span>3</span> </a> <a class="item-tag" href="/tags/geonames/" rel="tag"> geonames <span>7</span> </a> </p> </div> </div>  </div>  <div id="ft"> <ul> <li><a href="/about/#about-site">Colophon</a></li> <li>©</li> <li><a href="/2002/">2002</a></li> <li><a href="/2003/">2003</a></li> <li><a href="/2004/">2004</a></li> <li><a href="/2005/">2005</a></li> <li><a href="/2006/">2006</a></li> <li><a href="/2007/">2007</a></li> <li><a href="/2008/">2008</a></li> <li><a href="/2009/">2009</a></li> <li><a href="/2010/">2010</a></li> <li><a href="/2011/">2011</a></li> <li><a href="/2012/">2012</a></li> <li><a href="/2013/">2013</a></li> <li><a href="/2014/">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/2015/">2015</a></li> <li><a href="/2016/">2016</a></li> <li><a href="/2017/">2017</a></li> <li><a href="/2018/">2018</a></li> <li><a href="/2019/">2019</a></li> <li><a href="/2020/">2020</a></li> <li><a href="/2021/">2021</a></li> <li><a href="/2022/">2022</a></li> <li><a href="/2023/">2023</a></li> <li><a href="/2024/">2024</a></li> <li><a href="/2025/">2025</a></li> </ul> </div> <script> document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { document.querySelectorAll('h4[id],h5[id],h6[id]').forEach(el => { const id = el.getAttribute('id'); const permalinkContext = el.closest('[data-permalink-context]'); if (permalinkContext) { const url = permalinkContext.getAttribute('data-permalink-context'); const hashLink = document.createElement('a'); hashLink.style.borderBottom = 'none'; hashLink.style.color = '#666'; hashLink.style.fontSize = '1em'; hashLink.style.opacity = 0.8; hashLink.setAttribute('href', url + '#' + id); hashLink.innerText = '#'; el.appendChild(document.createTextNode(' ')); el.appendChild(hashLink); } }); }); </script> <script type="module"> const config = [ {"tag": "lite-youtube", "js": "/static/lite-yt-embed.js", "css": "/static/lite-yt-embed.css"} ]; for (const {tag, js, css} of config) { if (document.querySelector(tag)) { if (css) { document.head.appendChild( Object.assign(document.createElement('link'), { rel: 'stylesheet', href: css }) ); } if (js) { await import(js); } } } </script> </body> </html>

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