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SPOT is on Fire (Eagle)
posted Thursday, August 21, 2008 by Yak @ 1:33 PM - 0 comments

If you haven't heard of the SPOT Satellite Messenger by now you're either not really an adventure racer or you've been living under a rock.

The little orange GPS receiver, with it's built in satellite transmitter, has already been used to provide affordable GPS tracking of numerous adventure races including Primal Quest and several events in the Checkpoint Tracker Adventure Racing Series presented by Inov-8.

Well now, on top of saving lives and letting you shoot your wife (or husband, sorry chicas, love you) a Google Map so she (he) knows you've arrived at your campsite, SPOT has taken another interesting technological leap forward by integrating with a new service from Yahoo called Fire Eagle.

Fire Eagle is a web application that lets you specify your current location any time you like and control who or what can make use of that very private information with precision. You can update your 20 manually on the site or by phone or...wait for it...with your SPOT.

So what's the big deal?

Fire Eagle is gonna set your SPOT data free.

Thanks to a free API, there are already over 20 websites offering Fire Eagle integration with more on the way. As social networks and the like integrate with Fire Eagle, you'll have more and more ways to push your SPOT tracking data out onto the Interweb without sacrificing your privacy. After all, you don't want just anyone knowing where you are at all times.

Imagine a widget on your Facebook page that's automatically updated with a little Google Map showing your location as you race through the Upstate of South Carolina. That's just one example of the kinds of things that are now possible that SPOT supports Fire Eagle.

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