Jonathan McKinney - CEO
Graduated from Wesleyan University in 2004, and initially explored the world of nonprofit organizations, notably at Visions Services for the Blind in NYC. He then shifted gears, working as a junior bond analyst at R.W. Pressprich before heading off to Asia to teach on a two year assignment. Jonathan returned to the U.S. in 2008 to found the startup enterprise Cabcorner LLC, a mobile web based "cab sharing" platform, first launching in New York City (www.cabcorner.com).
Mayor’s office and TLC teaming up to bring Van Sharing to NYC
The mayor’s office has been consistent with their green transportation strategy. Their position has been, since Bloomberg’s first term, to seek new and innovative ways to transform the city into a more green concience place by proposing and implementing programs with various agencies throughout the city. From working with the DOT to transform places like [...]
From Yassky to Daus, Cab Sharing efforts Endure
Setting aside the issue of how to measure the success of cab sharing in NYC thus far, one thing can be surmised from the programs that have been proposed by both the current and former commissioners of the TLC, cab sharing will play an important role in New York City’s transportation future.
In light of cogestion problems and [...]
How Smart is your phone?
After reading Oren Frank’s thought provoking article, Goodbye, Smart Phone; Hello Predictive Context Device, regarding how smart phones could possibly come to play a more judgmental role in our modern lives, I had a back and forth with a friend and this is what she had to say:
Her: I mean, do we want our phones to be [...]
Our dev team
Without filter, from the horse’s mouth…our dev team, Galaxy Weblinks has spoken.
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The ever growing ripple effect
The “scale” upon which mass social migration for the purposes of seeking desirable dwellings is wieghed, with migrations out of cities on one side and migration into the cities on the other, has begun to tilt back in favor of the urban experience.
If we are to look at the United States over the last century, [...]
Michael Keaton and ‘the Dream Team’
As the saying goes, “there is no ‘I’ in team”, and the basic underpinning of that statement is universally true, but there is a ‘me’. The importance of the ‘me’ factor in building a team is possibly the single most important element of a successful enterprise. Cabcorner LLC is an enterprise built on the foundation [...]
Density, volume and time: How to make them work together
At some point in time we have all experienced this. “This”, is the convergence of volume and time at a specific point when they become uniquely at at odds with each other. Generally, to be at odds with each other, volume and time are forced to acknowledge each other over a cup of tea we [...]
Let Your Actions speak louder than words
We can argue, debate, rhetorically resist all we want, but at the end of the day “Actions Speak Louder Than Words”. Let’s act!
Instead of protesting the MTA by showing up at these open forums where, you the protester, are at risk to be arrested, why not protest with our collective will? Why not protest with our [...]
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Yassky is a good bet to succeed Matthew Daus as Commissioner of the TLC
Back in 2003, David Yassky took up the campaign to green up the New City Taxi fleet. He proposed presenting legislation that would require a certain percentage of the NYC taxi fleet to use hybrid vehicles by a certain date and for that number to increase over time until the entire fleet had [...]
