Movable Type, SixApart’s installable publishing platform for the Web, has been in the news lately, particularly for a stirring blog entry posted by the company’s vice president and chief evangelist, Anil Dash, earlier this week. Well, today company co-founder Ben Trott, has spoken up about another topic, though one that is sure to bring less controversy and animosity to the table. Today’s memo: Movable Type is hooking up with Yahoo’s Fire Eagle location-sharing service through pluginomics.
Something to note for all you open API lovers out there: Yahoo’s Fire Eagle API is using the new OAuth standard, which is very kind of them, wouldn’t you agree? The folks at Movable Type promise to offer the Perl OAuth library with the next release of the software package.
Also, do keep in mind that Fire Eagle is remains an invite-only service. SixApart advises dabblers to leave comments on the company blog post. They’ll email access keys out to those that make requests.