These days everyone has different ways of sharing their information. You used to share your travel news by postcard, expensive international phone calls and maybe a slide night when you got home. OK it’s probably been a while since you’ve been to a slide night, but these days you’re more like to send an email, call with a phonecard or mobile phone, or send a text message. You may even have online places you use to share information with friends and family.
We hope that we’re building something that’s a great way to share your trip, but we don’t want to lock you into having to use our site. We are planning to enable different ways to share the information from your Travel Journal. We have plans for a Facebook application to allow you to share your trip with your friends on Facebook, but initially we have added support for a service from Yahoo! called Fire Eagle.
Fire Eagle is a location broker, which means that it acts as an intermediary between different services that want to share location information. The big advantage for users is that you can control it all in one place. If you want to disable access by an application you just log into Fire Eagle and turn it off.
So why is this useful? As location aware applications become more common you can mix and match the service you use. Tell Fire Eagle to allow the Travel Journal to update your location and now the Facebook application that uses Fire Eagle will be updated as you travel. Have a fancy phone with a GPS? Use Navizon to update your location and the Travel Journal can retrieve your accurate location from Fire Eagle.
Fire Eagle is currently in private beta, which means you need an invitation to join. Send us an email with your journal id to tjfeedback (at) ekit-inc (dot) com if you would like an invite.
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