Fire Eagle open for business tomorrow: Very exciting news! A little bird told me that, as from tomorrow, Yahoo's brand new Fire Eagle service will be open for business. In private beta that is, so if you want to play along, request an invitation through the website: http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/ .Fire Eagle is (from the website): "...the secure and stylish way to share your location with sites and services online while giving you unprecedented control over your data and privacy. We're ...

LinkedIn delivering APIs to developers : I say it's about time! Leading professional social network and infamous walled garden 2.0 LinkedIn will finally let its users data out of the cage. It's going to happen within the next 9 months, Dan Farber reports . Although maybe a bit late (why another 9 months?) and definitely in response to competitor Facebook's rapid growth and general acclaim after doing the same, they've definitely made the right...