Geode – Google and Mozilla Banding Together

The move by Google who is considered to be the leading mapping and location aware experts anywhere on the internet (except for the military and intelligence community maybe), and Mozilla have joined forces to take part in the Geode, an awareness add-on package that allows Firefox to display locational data along with Google’s maps. This may be their answer to Yahoo’s Fire Eagle project that resulted in the Geocoder API, allowing yahoo to be web aware. The partnership may be well-placed with Google’s extensive data centers and mapping data to go with it, and Firefox’s overall dominance of the browser market, its a mix of two good things that allows your browser to tell you where you are and possible where other people are. Read the rest of this entry »