Lots of coverage, mostly good. However, it’s important to note that it’s just an announcement. The developer launch will happen later this month. Tom Coates and the team have been working tirelessly with some of the world’s leading geo-coding experts, and we’re almost ready.

The service has been carefully engineered to do a couple of small things very well (namely, geo-coding with privacy) – issues with which every application in the space has struggled. By elegantly solving these, Fire Eagle has the potential to unleash a whole class of LBS applications in a very open way.

Can’t wait.