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Tom Coates replied on July 24, 2009 19:25 to the idea "Fire Eagle should take advantage of of iPhone OS 3.0’s new support for location services for web applications" in Yahoo!:

This is a lovely idea, that I'll talk to the guys about and see if we can put this together. I'm not sure that it's something that can happen in the browser though, rather than in an app, but I'll look into it.

Tom Coates replied on July 24, 2009 19:24 to the question "m.fireeagle.com is gone" in Yahoo!:

Hi there, Sorry about the delay here. You should find that m.fireeagle.com is back! If you have other problems, I can actually recommend speaking to @fireeagle on Twitter or sending us a comment via the website as a better way to get in touch with us in a hurry.

Sorry again for the delay however...

Tom Coates replied on May 18, 2009 18:16 to the problem "Can't authorize Voilá" in Crist Drive:

I'm terribly sorry about this - we're working on the issue as we speak and should have it fixed ASAP.

Tom Coates replied on May 14, 2009 20:24 to the problem "Can't authorize Voilá" in Crist Drive:

At the moment when you deauth an application with Fire Eagle I *believe* that you just throw your various details away on your side. If you want, you can take the approach that Sparrow does and just go through the auth process again. Seth would be able to give you more in depth help on this one, but unfortunately he's out of the office at the moment.

Tom Coates replied on May 14, 2009 20:14 to the problem "Can't authorize Voilá" in Crist Drive:

Hey there - I work on Fire Eagle and we're exploring this issue as we speak. You guys are the first to report it. I'm having some trouble finding a way to deauthorize Voila to try the auth process from the beginning again. Mathieu is there any easy way for me to do this? I've tried deleting and reinstalling the app without luck.

Tom Coates replied on January 26, 2009 03:51 to the question "Use Yahoo Local Data :)" in Fire Eagle:

Hi Beach, Yeah - local integration is something that we're keen to do. It's on the list and we've got some people looking into it at the moment. It's not our highest priority, but I would hope to have it in place in a couple of months, all other things being equal.

Tom Coates replied on December 12, 2008 03:00 to the question "Can I just have my location show up in news feed items?" in Fire Eagle:

So here's the problem. You might want to share your location with everyone you know on Facebook. But on the other hand, you might start accidentally sharing your location with a whole bunch of people you only know in a vague way as a contact or a friend of a friend.

The ideal situation is, I think, that we gesturally indicate a limited number of times a day that you are updating your location if they've not got FOF permissions, and show them the exact location if they do. Let me dig into this in a bit more detail and see how deeply we've explored this and where our current thinking is.

Tom Coates replied on December 11, 2008 04:05 to the question "Not living up to it's potential. Why so little integration?" in Fire Eagle:

Honestly, the decision to not integrate heavily with a lot of Yahoo properties straightaway has been taken by the team. We want to make sure that the app is as clear as possible and that we're meeting the needs of the wider developer community before we put Fire Eagle front and centre in front of one of the world's biggest audiences. You only get one chance to make a first impression and we're determined to make the most of it. We're growing it slowly and organically in the meantime.

You may have seen our Friends on Fire application. That's one of the apps we've been doing to get people excited, along with the integrations with Pownce, Six Apart, Outside.in and all the others in the gallery. Integrations with Flickr will happen, and with the rest of Yahoo after that, but one step at a time. Remember, we only launched Fire Eagle to the public in August and we've already got nearly sixty apps in the gallery!

Tom Coates replied on December 08, 2008 08:00 to the problem "People sometimes displayed in clusters and individually." in Brickhouse Betas:

Very very much appreciated.

Tom Coates reported a problem in Brickhouse Betas on December 02, 2008 21:48:

Formatting in Invitations interface is confusing

The way the invitations are formatted makes it hard to tell if something is highlighted or whether they're pending - ie. if someone has added me, then it looks like they're highlighted in the interface. Generally weirdness here. Talk to me for more examples.

Tom Coates reported a problem in Brickhouse Betas on December 02, 2008 17:12:

Link to Get Satisfaction opens in iFrame

When you click to go through to Get Satisfaction, it opens in the same frame on Facebook rather than in the full window.

Tom Coates reported a problem in Brickhouse Betas on December 02, 2008 05:24:

Signal didn't appear at the place I was at.

I sent a signal from the place I was at using the alert at the bottom when I moved, and the signal didn't appear on the map.

Tom Coates reported a problem in Brickhouse Betas on December 02, 2008 05:18:

Marker is at the bottom.

The marker displaying where I am is normally behind everything else. Shouldn't it be on the top?

Tom Coates reported a problem in Brickhouse Betas on December 02, 2008 05:14:

People sometimes displayed in clusters and individually.

The same people are displayed twice on the map every so often - once individually and once in groups. Normaly this happens when you zoom in or out.