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Marco Makes It Easy to Find Your Friends
We've all had that frustrating experience of trying to meet up with a friend at a crowded park or a concert: One of you is peering into the massive sea of people, the other is standing hundreds of feet away, waving their arms like a lunatic. You're texting each other or talking distractedly on the phone as you try to locate each other visually. It's painful.
Assuming one of you has an iPhone, you should try using Marco.
It's a free iPhone app that lets you share your exact location with a friend. Marco makes it painless to meet up in a crowded place, because it provides real-time updates about where Person A and Person B are, by plotting both of you on a map you can both see. The map updates as you move.
The best part may be that you can share your location with any phone that has a browser, so it still works if your friend doesn't have an iPhone.
The free app is available in the App Store. If you're searching from your iPhone, you want Marco friend locator — searching for just Marco returns Instapaper creator Marco Arment as the top result.
Open it up and you'll see a map centered on your current location. Tap the big green "Find Your Friend" button, and enter anyone from your address book. Marco sends your friend an SMS with a web link. When they click on the link inside the SMS, they see a map of where you are, and they're invited to share their location.
Here's the cool part — the receiving end works through the browser, so the other person doesn't need any apps, and it works across mobile platforms.
As you both move around, the maps stay in sync. You can both watch your locations change as you walk towards each other: You see your friend moving in the Marco app, and your friend sees you moving on the web page. Marco can also spit out directions if you're in unfamiliar te...
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