Some of you may recall several months ago when I made fun of the name of Yahoo’s new location-based application Fire Eagle. Tom Coates, who came up with the name, left me a comment on the post stating:

“As the person who came up with the project and the code name, I can reassure you that we’re not going to be launching with Fire Eagle.”

Despite the definitive words, Tom was nice enough to come back a few months later with an update possibly to the contrary:

“Just to confuse things a little, I should now perhaps add that it may in fact be called Fire Eagle after all! Thanks for the kind words about the project though…”

Well guess what? The service was announced this morning at ETech complete with the name Fire Eagle.

Though very bare-boned at the moment, the idea behind Fire Eagle looks to be a solid one. Matt did a good write-up of it at VentureBeat.

Yahoo let me in to the beta and was nice enough to give me some invites to pass out. I’ve got three left, the first three folks to leave me their email addresses in the comments will get em.

Come ride the Fire Eagle with me.

[UPDATE]: They’re all gone already, but I’ll let you know when I get some more.