Fire Eagle and Movable Type

Having had a longstanding interest in geo-location--and, well, its intersections with blogging and online identity--I'm really excited about Yahoo!'s new Fire Eagle service.

I'm also really excited that we now have Fire Eagle for Movable Type plugin connecting an MT profile to a Fire Eagle account. This makes an MT profile location-aware and, just like Fire Eagle itself, opens the door to tons of other interesting features that the plugin provides: adding a map of your current location to your blog; tracking changes to your location in your Action Stream; &c.

I've written more about Fire Eagle for Movable Type on sixapart.com.

Comments

[giusec .]

Hi Ben, not sure if this is the right place, but let's try.
Just tested the plug-in. Everything works just fine with the exception of the map. Map is simply not loaded. I got an email-notification from my cron job

Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /home/giusec/public_html/cgi-bin/mt/plugins/FireEagle/fireeagle.pl line 288.

This has something to do with this line:

if ( $geo->{type} eq 'Point' ) {
return sprintf "http://maps.google.com/staticmap?size=%s&markers=%s,reda&zoom=%d&key=%s",

Not sure if this is the real reason for the map not loaded. Any thoughts? Where else can I post my question?

You can see results (no map) on my blog and my test blog sidebars. I am using exactly the same widget listed on the readme-file.

http://www.giusec.net/new_layout/

and

http://www.giusec.net/new_layout/

Sorry to bother and thanks in advance
giusec

[Benjamin Trott]

giusec -- I think they updated the JSON version of the API yesterday, from a discussion I saw last night on the mailing list. The "geojson" element is now called "geometry", iirc. I'll do an update to the plugin today to use the new element name.

[giusec .]

OK, thanks. In fact, i get that error (line 288) every time the cron job runs.

Once you re-pot the plugin, should we reinstall the entire plugin or just few files?

[Benjamin Trott]

Okay, I've uploaded a new version of the plugin: version 1.02. Once you've downloaded it, you can replace plugins/FireEagle/fireeagle.pl with the new version; that should fix the problem.

[giusec .]

in fact, it works now. Thanks. No longer error messages from the Cron Job. Still no map, but this is probably another story.

[Robin Hamman]

Any chance there's a way to get this working with Typepad? Very cool...

[Avantgarde MVC]

I installed the plugin but i cannot seem to find the:

5. Navigate to your profile, and click on "Configure Fire Eagle"

Help, what am I missing.