On the cutting edge of geolocation with Mozilla Labs’ Geode
If you’ve been waiting for a browser than natively supports location-based services, here’s your first taste. Firefox 3.1 is all set to include geolocation based on a new WC3 standard, but you can test it out now with a Firefox add-on called Geode,聽from Mozilla Labs. Geode lets websites request your location the same way they request to install add-ons or open blocked popups. The possibilities for this technology are immense — mobile devices are already taking advantage of it, so why not laptops?
The first services to be compatible with Geode are the social network Pownce, Yahoo!’s location-management product Fire Eagle, and a demo food finder from Mozilla. Geode gets your location via wifi, using Skyhook’s Loki technology, and you can pass it to a website as a city, a neighborhood, or an exact location. I’m looking forward to seeing the other uses developers come up with for this technology before it goes mainstream in the next version of Firefox.
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