Fire Eagle presentation for IIT Delhi Hack U event

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Yahoo! University Hack Day

“IIT Delhi Campus is

huge”

“IIT Delhi Campus is

huge”

Yahoo! Maps and Geo

IIT Delhi University Hack Day

Yahoo! University Hack Day 2

Subramanyan Murali Maps Frontend Engineer, Hacker

Arnab NandiFire Eagle Engineer Maps, Evangelist

Location aware is useful ?

Location aware is useful !

Y? GeoCapture the worlds geography as it

is used by the worlds people

We offer Technologies that connect Yahoo! users with the world around them

Geo Planet ™http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/

Map Image APIhttp://developer.yahoo.com/maps/rest/V1/

Map Presentation APIhttp://developer.yahoo.com/maps/ajax/

http://developer.yahoo.com/fireeagle/

Top 10 location aware apps http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/magazine/17-02/lp_10coolapps?currentPage=all

Trend watchinghttp://www.trendwatching.com/trends/halfdozentrends2009

Dive into Location aware Apps

WhosHere

iNap Application

WhosHere Application

Lets make that better

WhosHere

iNap Application

WhosHere

What is stopping us ?

#1 Application developers do not wants to open up

their data to others

#2 Too many platforms to develop on

#3 Immature development ecosystem

#4 Privacyhttp://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/magazine/17-02/lp_guineapig?currentPage=all

No fear, Location broker for Internet is here !!

WhosHere

iNap Application

WhosHere

Fire Eagle Fire Eagle

The truth is out there

Y! Map Tiles Server

Fire Eagle stores locations

Facebook stores social relations and authentication.

Friends On Fire mashes up data for registered Facebook users

The APIs

“…Because the card in my camera automatically added location data to

my photos, anyone who cared to look at my Flickr page could see my

computers, my spendy bicycle, …. Hell, with a few clicks you could get driving

directions right to my place—and with a few more you could get black gloves

and a lock pick delivered to your home. …”

‘We’ deal with it !

#1 Location granularity

#2 Hide Me!

#3 Access vs. update

#4 Periodic house keeping

Gory Details

ApplicationApplication

Registers

Consumer token SecretAccess Application

Yahoo! sign in at Fire Eagle

Set Privacy and Authorize

Authorize app and redirect

User – App interactionUpdate and Retrieval

• Customer Token & Secret– Issued to all registered apps. Used to make user authorization

requests.• General Token & Secret

– Issued to registered Web applications with callback authorized URL.– Used to make aggregated queries like within and recent.

• Request Token & Secret– Temporary token to create a placeholder token for user

authorization.– Requested from Fire Eagle using the consumer token.– Sent along with the redirect URL to provide context for user

registration.• OAuth Token & Secret

– Defines the authorization given by the user to a specific app.– For the same user, each authorized app has a different OAuth

token.– Used for API queries: lookup, user, update

Authorization Tokens

Can I locate your Hack

Happy Hacking

Fire Eagle presentation for IIT Delhi Hack U event

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