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

Posted by john on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 7:52 am

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.

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    This is great — exactly the kind of goodness that Geode is meant to enable. Keep up the good work.

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    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!

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