Mozilla Labs launches Geode

[sreevirus]

Introducing Geode, an experimental add-on to explore geolocation in Firefox 3 ahead of the implementation of geolocation in a future product release. Geode provides an early implementation of the W3C Geolocation specification so that developers can begin experimenting with enabling location-aware experiences using Firefox 3 today, and users can tell us what they think of the experience it provides. It includes a single experimental geolocation service provider so that any computer with WiFi can get accurate positioning data.

The potential here is for more than just resturant lookups. For example, imagine an RSS reader that knows the difference between home and work and automatically changes it’s behavior appropriately. Or a news site whose local section is, in fact, actually local. Or Web site authentication that only allows you to login from certain physical locations, like your house.

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Pownce and Yahoo! Fire Eagle are also involved with Geode.

[ax3]

nice ..... bt hope it doesnt eat 2 much of memory ........

[comp@ddict]

Waise bhi 10 addons toh hai hi..one more won't make a difference

[kumarmohit]

This is good but will wait till it is adopted on a large scale

[comp@ddict]

letz see..waiting for reviews ATM

[MetalheadGautham]

and me was thinking they bought hardware from AMD (if you know what im taking bout )

[apoorva84]

nice....

[x3060]

one more to the list, well, i will wait this time till a review comes