Fire Eagle, first discussed by Yahoo last year, is a service that Web users can employ to update their location information and share that information with Web-based applications of their choosing. It’s built on an open platform, so application developers can tap into the information to add location-aware features to their services.

Movable Type, for example, has built a Fire Eagle plug-in that displays users’ locations on their blogs, automatically updating the information every time users rebuild their sites. With Fire Eagle, Pownce, a site for sharing music, photos and other files, now can geotag messages. Yahoo envisions Fire Eagle as a single tool for users to manage their location information.

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