Fire Eagle is a Yahoo! service that is able to update an user’s physical location. Currently it is in invite-only since the service was launched in March this year.

Currently, a user can easily update her location through the availability of the twelve (12) third-party applications such as brightkite, DOPPLR, Firebot for Twitter, Loki for IE / Firefox, Plazes and etc. And on the other hand, her location data can also be made available to other location platforms. Put simply, if you seriously want people know where on earth are you, and want people to respond to your location, Fire Eagle can be a great platform for you.

In technological settings, Fire Eagle takes what your input to the third-party applications that they supported and then create more value for you, such as weather information or shopping guide around your location, etc. With respect to the privacy issue, you can either hide your location or even purge your location information completely from the Fire Eagle database, which I think this is a big promise that Fire Eagle provided to everyone of their users. Furthermore, to keep you continue in using the service with faith, there is a Fire Eagle setting that you can select how often you’d like to share your location with others, in the options of the following: once a month, or once in every three months, or never. And you feel you’re in total control of your location data, hopefully your destiny as well.