Rally Up in the Press


	Rally Up Brings "Real Friend-Focused" Location Based Social Network To The iPad www.techcrunch.com Location based services like Foursquare, Gowalla and others are increasing in usage but there are definite privacy concerns with sharing your exact location with the world. Rally Up recently launched its location based social network via an iPhone app that only includes your "real friends" and emphasizes privacy as a main feature of the application. Today, Rally Up is bringing its application to the iPad with a free app... (read more)

	Rally Up Brings Location-Based Social Networking to the iPad www.readwriteweb.com Rally Up, a new location-based social network with a strong focus on privacy, just became the first fully featured location-based social network with an iPad app. The app, which is available for free (iTunes link), includes all of the features of Rally Up's iPhone app. Thanks to making good use of the iPad's expanded screen estate, however, using the iPad app is far easier and a lot more fun.... (read more)

	Rally Up is the Coolest Social Networking App for iPad www.cultofmac.com Rally Up, the newish location based social networking app, released an update for iPad Thursday that immediately puts the upstart application ahead of the game for people who want to keep track of and interact with their friends on the iPad... (read more)

	Rally Up is a Location-Based Network For People Who Like Privacy www.mashable.com A new geolocation app for the iPhone was released today called Rally Up. What differentiates Rally Up from the likes of Foursquare and Gowalla is that it has a strong focus on privacy and content sharing. Rally Up bills itself as “a social network for real friends,” letting users share messages and photos with the people they trust... (read more)

	Check-in Wars Gain a New Combatant in Rally Up www.cultofmac.com Rally Up’s focus is more on combining microblogging with location, providing its users a platform for sharing text, videos and direct messages with one another. With an emphasis on the quality of a user’s friends in the Rally Up network, the app doesn’t support mass ‘Friend’ imports from Twitter or Facebook, rather it draws from the phone’s contact list or address book to populate the app with people a user is more likely to be interested in sharing with... (read more)

	First look: Rally Up, a social network for real friends www.tuaw.com I have to admit it: I like location-based social networking apps. Probably my favorite to date has been FourSquare, which I love because I'm the "Mayor" of a couple dozen locations. But this type of app isn't for everyone. My wife, for example, says that she thinks they're a bit too much like stalking (to which I replied, "there's an app for that"), so she won't use them. Rally Up is a new location-based social network (that's so awkward to say) that has several features that may sway my wife. The free app for iPhone, and soon for iPad, lets you set granular friend preferences... (read more)

	Rally Up: A Location-Based Social Network for Your Real Friends www.nytimes.com Without a doubt, location-based services and social networks are one of the hottest topics on the Internet right now. Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt and many others are vying for users, but strong privacy concerns are still holding back the mainstream adoption of these kinds of services. Rally Up for the iPhone is a new location-based social network that puts a very strong emphasis on privacy and also features some innovative new concepts... (read more)

	'Rally Up' Broadcasts Location to Just Your Friends www.pcmag.com Move over, Foursquare and Gowalla: there's a new, free location-based social networking iPhone app in town. Rally Up, much like its predecessors, shares your locations and check-ins, but has a laser-beam focus on security by broadcasting your movements only to select individuals... (read more)

	RALLY 'round the iPhone www.goodtimessantacruz.com (cover story) Local tekkies generate buzz with an iPhone app focused on 'real friends' There is a specter haunting social media. And though you may hate to admit it, your technophobic uncle somehow managed to hit the nail right on the head in his requisite New Year's Eve diatribe on how things were better in the "good old days." Let's face it, you don't hang out with 95 percent of your Facebook friends, you will never even meet half the people you follow on Twitter and you certainly don't care that Ashton Kutcher is waiting to get a triple venti mocha on North Beverly Drive... (Read more)

	Rally Wants To Bring Location Back To Its Core, With Only Your Real Friends. www.techcrunch.com Apparently, I'm not the only one who thinks there is a social paradox in the location space. A new service, Rally, believes the power of location lies in less rather than more. That is to say, fewer social connections rather than more of them. It's an idea that you don't hear a lot of social networks talking about these days as each tries to build a social graph that's as sprawling as possible. But the team behind Rally is taking this different approach largely due to their past experience... (Read more)

	Rally brings social geo-location to your real friends www.venturebeat.com All over the social Web these days, there's a race to get as many friends, followers, readers, or subscribers as possible—most of them people you don't know. As location-based social applications like Foursquare and Gowalla grow, they're broadcasting your location to all those people, connecting you in one more way to a lot of people you've never heard of. As our "circle of friends" grows out of control, we wind up more public than we mean to be, sharing information with everyone just to be able to share it with our real friends... (Read more)

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Rally Up in the Press

RALLY 'round the iPhone

Rally Wants To Bring Location Back To Its Core, With Only Your Real Friends.

Rally brings social geo-location to your real friends