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Fire Eagle Burns a WordPress Plugin

Posted by John Saddington on Dec 22, 2008

Geolocation is getting big.

In fact, it’s so big that I’ve decided to finally commit to spending the due diligence to decide on a service that I like and make a true attempt at keeping it updated.

Perhaps this is due in part because Fire Eagle, a Yahoo company, finally built a customizable WordPress plugin, and many of the other services have as well.

They also have a cool name.  That gives them a few points, right?

Check it…!

fireeagle_for_wordpress

Fire Eagle essentially is a storing house for information about where you are in the world.  Then you can use other applications to showcase your location and more via the Fire Eagle API.

Cool, right?  Check out my sidebar.  Yum.

Let me know if you have the time to install and try this thing out.  I’d love to see some others implement.

In addition, what are your thoughts about geolocation technology?  Is it reasonable, valuable, and effective for ministry purposes?

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John Saddington

John is the Chief Editor @ The 8BIT Network and Senior Blog Junkie here at ChurchCrunch.He enjoys Triple-Tall Americanos, developing Wordpress Themes, and a few other Random Things.

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13 Responses to “Fire Eagle Burns a WordPress Plugin”

  1. Leo Wurschmidt
    Tuesday, December 23, 2008 at 3:00 am

    Cool stuff. I may try it on my blog. Other than some cool implementations with the iPhone and photography, I am not completely sold on the value for ministry apps… yet.

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    • human3rror
      Tuesday, December 23, 2008 at 3:24 am

      yeah. still working on that… i need an expert geo-guy to come in my house.

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  2. Daniel_Berman
    Tuesday, December 23, 2008 at 3:28 am

    I believe the value in ministry will come more from travelers and researchers.

    I.e its not about me as much as the traveler being able to plug his location into somewhere and asking, "where can I attend Church should I so desire?"

    Or the more interesting possibility, if a church wants to research the possibility of partnership with another church in another country, geo-location would seem to offer the possibility of asking, "What churchs meet in such and such a country and/or city?" and then be able to actually contact them and begin building a relationship.

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    • human3rror
      Tuesday, December 23, 2008 at 3:37 am

      good points.. much to be explored. much to be desired.

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  3. Jeff
    Tuesday, December 23, 2008 at 4:02 am

    With all of these social networks abounding I have fallen into the "If ping.fm doesn't send to it, I probably won't use it." category, if that is actually a category.

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    • Daniel_Berman
      Tuesday, December 23, 2008 at 4:07 am

      social networking attention crash?

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      • human3rror
        Tuesday, December 23, 2008 at 5:38 am

        on snap. seriously.

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    • human3rror
      Tuesday, December 23, 2008 at 5:38 am

      it is… and a ot of people actually use that as an excuse for non-adoption. heard it before… :)

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  4. tjgillies
    Tuesday, December 23, 2008 at 6:16 am

    Nice! you always post to yummy dev stuff

    Reply
  5. ArianaMema
    Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 5:07 am

    I love it! That is way cool man! The steps weren’t that complicated too, which is great.

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  1. churchcrunch (churchcrunch)

    New blog post: Fire Eagle Burns a WordPress Plugin http://tinyurl.com/6wy9d3

  2. human3rror (human3rror)

    geolocation… whos doing it ? ::::::New blog post: Fire Eagle Burns a WordPress Plugin http://tinyurl.com/6wy9d3