Skyhook Wireless is out with another SDK, Local Faves, which this time allows developers to add location tagging, community and check-in functionality to any iPhone app.
Here’s how it works and what it does (their own words):
Local Faves helps developers create engaging communities within apps, driving user loyalty and more opportunities for monetization. In a Local Faves-enabled iPhone wine app, users could check-in to a restaurant via the wine they’re drinking, giving the wine app developer the opportunity to directly broadcast user location. Local Faves features fully customizable content tagging, allowing users to indicate that they loved, hated, ‘favorited’, saw, or read a piece of content within an app, and enables sharing of this content, and exactly where it was experienced, via Facebook and Twitter.
Developers can set up map views of Local Faves-tagged content, allowing users to, for example, see where around the world their favorite song is playing, or view all songs playing locally. To make it even more interesting, a rankings feature provides stats on any piece of content, like a song, book, movie, or article, to show who loves it, where, and location-based trends over time.
In terms of availability, Skyhook said that Local Faves will be made available in mid-April. To sign up to be notified when it’s released, make sure to leave your email on this page on Skyhook’s website.