Comments on: Yahoo counters Google Latitude: Friends on Fire

Company begins making something useful out of its Fire Eagle service: a Facebook application that lets friends share their location. Also: a Firefox plug-in for Fire Eagle.

[skillingssucks]

Yahoo! is still playing "the follower".

[flickrz]

If you didn't know something they did before others doesn't mean they are followers. FireEagle is much older than google latitude. Never mind, fanboys are always insanely ignorant to the world outside of their room. Just look at apple fanboys; they think apple is omnipotent and is always first and the best. Come out of reality distortion field, would ya?

[eltoro2827]

you could say the same about gay google

[t8]

The real winner here is facebook. A message to Mark Zuckerberg. If you are patient, you will be able to buy Microsoft. They are reaching for the cloud and you are already there.

[bhushan bhaagii]

My take. Till 2 years back, the mobile telephony universe was closed, with Nokia ruling the roost, in most parts of the world. The iPhone has made a huge dent in that. The big question is, if iPhone manages to install itself the way iTunes has done, then, it opens up different scenarios. If the mobile phone becomes your joint-first source of connection to the net (with your notebook/desktop), that is the space in which all these players will be jousting and jostling each other. Convergence was the buzz word that was being used 10 years ago for the internet-telephony-entertainment. Looks like it's set to be realised now.

[magicmaster]

Yahoo! should not let children play with fires.