Rally Up – Really Like It

Social media noise getting to you too? Look no further.

The innovative minds over at 12Seconds launched a new location based social network called Rally. And its got some pretty nice features.

• real friends get push notifications and end up in your feed
• feed friends just end up in your feed (no push notifications – battery saver)
• lurk allows you to see a friends’ content, but they don’t see yours (it’s okay to be a lurker)
• mute turns off those people whose friend request you accepted under social pressure (we all do it)

Will this replace Foursquare? Probably not at this point. However, other apps and communities could learn a couple of tricks from Rally.

• Sending messages directly to your friends is a nice feature
• Quick access to maps & directions

Plus – I like the overly simplistic style and theme of the entire app. Black and White. Seems like they paid more attention to how people would like to connect with the people in their lives, rather than just making another pretty app. Oh yea, and the “stamps” you’ll get are pretty cool too…

Check it out…let me know what you think.