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The Future is Here: outside.in Radar Now Powered by Mozilla Geode

October 9, 2008 at 7:52 am · Filed under Features· by john

Two days ago Mozilla Labs announced a cool new plugin for Firefox named Geode. Geode is a simple tool that makes your Firefox browser location-aware, allowing it to know where you are at any given moment. Mozilla built Geode to fit their vision of the future of web browsing, which they describe like so:

You’ve arrived in a new city, a new continent, a new coffee shop. You don’t really know where you are, and are looking for a good place to eat. You pull out your laptop, fire up Firefox, and go to your favorite review site. It automatically deduces your location, and serves up some delicious suggestions a couple blocks away and plots directions there.

We at outside.in thought that sounded like an exciting idea, so we decided to integrate Geode into Radar to complete the other half of that picture. And now it’s done, live on the site, and the future that Mozilla imagines is here. As of today when you use Firefox with your Geode plugin installed, Radar immediately picks up your location and plops you in that exact area, showing you the latest headlines and stories around you.

Now you don’t even need to know where you are to get the news around you.

Love that web – keeps getting better and better. We’re looking forward to more great stuff like this from Mozilla.

You can download your Geode plugin here.

  • This is great -- exactly the kind of goodness that Geode is meant to enable. Keep up the good work.
  • Thanks Aza, nice to hear that coming from Mozilla. Good luck with the upcoming FF 3.1 release - we're expecting great stuff in that!
  • We've been thinking about adding some Outside.in functionality from the API to our services. There is a huge crossover between geo-data and professional information services. I think we will see this Web2.0 type functionality being used more and more by businesses even over consumers..good for outside.in
  • Mr G always makes us surprised.
  • Thanks for your post did know about Geode.. I am going to apply this and see how it works.. with so much coming out on GPS stuff a this I think is the first browser based stuff, if I have not missed something interesting.
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    happening and how to prevent it again.

    Not sent from a computer.
  • And the laser targeting marketing ability of the internet just got sharper. Seriously, you are crazy if you are a local business and not cashing in on this!
  • Technically, The Javascript API is what allows any website to request and process geolocation data. It’s a W3C standard, so the the API will be constant across all browsers, as well as between Geode and Firefox 3.1. And hopefully let Geode win all the older versions.
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