Fire Eagle, Yahoo’s platform built specifically for storing/broadcasting your current location, opened its doors to the public today. For the first time, any joe off the street can check out what Fire Eagle has to offer. Lets take a lo.. wait a second. I’ve seen this layout before.
Rolling green hills populated with round-cornered buildings and perfectly circular trees, hovering above center oriented, round-cornered blocks.
(Correction made to post - see bottom)
It’s the Twitterfone layout, but with less cars and hazier skies.
Did the Twitterfone designer get hired for a second job and decide to stick with what they know, or is someone just taking the sincerest form of flattery to an extreme?
Correction: Looks like I got my dates mixed up. Fire Eagle has apparently had this layout for quite some time - it just went over my head until now. Shows me for posting at the tail end of a long day. I’ll go dig to see where the hills first rolled - In the mean time, I owe everyone involved a beer. I’ll go ahead and leave this up to remind myself not to make stupid mistakes.
i believe you have it reversed - twitterfone copied fireeagle.
fireeagle beta launched in 2007 and has looked that way ever since it launched — proof by techcrunch:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/04/yahoo-fireeagle-a-platform-service-for-geo-information/
and twitterfone launched in 2008 -
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/07/get-twitter/
(from the first line- “twitterfone launched in May”).
hence, twitterfone copied fireeagle, not the other way around.
Twitterfone launched May 7. Fire Eagle went into beta at ETech two months before (and the design was locked down many months before).
Did the MobileCrunch editor really not know the dates of when the designs debuted or is he just trolling for hits and maliciously casting aspersions?
(Even then the designs are only similar at the most superficial level. One is pixelboy and the is vector cartoony.)
agreeeed!