Fire Eagle lets users either manually enter their location throughout the day or authorize their cell phones or computer applications to do it for them. They can also set privacy preferences to determine who can access that information. Developers can then use that data to build “geo-aware applications.”

Pownce has been one of the services testing the platform for its users’ location fields. Other services already using Fire Eagle include Web publishing system Moveable Type, interactive story site Dipity, and social network location manager Loki.

Fire Eagle is an open platform and can be integrated into most any application.

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Tickr from Dipity is a Flickr browser that delivers results in chronological order on a visual time line.

The site opens with a search engine style interface with popular results showing. Users can search for pics by tag or by location of the shot. Results are then delivered on the time line and can be scrolled backwards or forwards.

I don’t know much about the company behind it, their about page is spartan but they launched a similar service for YouTube back in May according to this TechCrunch post.

It’s a simple, functional service that provides a decent front end for searching Flickr. Worth a look.

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