I syndicated this to the Infurious blog and was informed that Symbian is already doing this. Yeah, well, no it’s not. You CAN set your status, you can do some of this, but you have to do it manually. To help you understand it, you’d need to go read Chris’s entry on it. A lot of it is PUSH – the intelligence is in the device and in the cloud – and not in the end user.

I’ve asked for an invite to FireEagle so I’ll have a play eventually.

No comment on whether Yahoo can sieze defeat from the jaws of victory.

Rather than building the end service they have built a location “transaction” service that takes in location data from different sources and allows this data to be reused via an api.