fireeagle

All of your devices only send location information to FireEagle, then you register applications with FireEagle to receive your place data.

This means that the user only has to update Fireeagle to update all their apps.

In this case loopt can provide fireeagle with exact co-ordinates and fireeagle can forward only your city to dopplr, and which neighbourhood you are in to your facebook/dodgeball friends.

Back when Yahoo was doing a bunch of things that were cool and not profit-driven, like FireEagle.

Could someone build an iPhone app that sends your location to fireeagle?

I met one of the FireEagle devs there, at the same ETech event, and he was a really great person.

I think mobile+attention data startups are going to be big next year, with FireEagle from yahoo brickhouse one of the first.

FireEagle let's you control the privacy of your location data.

They can just use Fireeagle and forget about the rest.

That's what FireEagle [1] was designed for.

Except fireeagle doesn't have a client with an install base as large as Google Maps' and is really more of a pipe/aggregator than a client in the first place.

Damn, that is a great guess that is so close it hurts: you've made me confident that I'm mis-remembering enough to think I'm actually talking about the FireEagle launch event.

Fireeagle acts as middlewear, allowing users to update their location in lots of ways through an API (Text string, GPS units, Cell phone via services like Navizon, etc) and then share is with apps of their choice.