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CabCorner.com Launches on Memorial Day, May 31st!

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After a year of prototype operation and six months of development, CabCorner’s powerful new platform has launched!!!
We commend the entire team for their hard work and dedication, and look forward to serving our users.  Check out the site, and let us know what you think.

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2009: YEAR IN REVIEW

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To my fellow teammates and our loyal supporters:
Merry Christmas, and a belated Happy Hanukkah!  I’m so proud to pen this year-end review of the CabCorner project.  We’ve come a long way and enjoyed so much success during our first year of operation… its all due to the hard work yall have invested, and I write [...]

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our team expands

Our search for a development partner took us weeks and across the globe… but we’ve finally settled on a team based right next door in Long Island.  I find something rather thrilling about the fact that our efforts (and dollars) will remain onshore.  (Does that make me sound naive or patriotic?)
We also finally lined up [...]

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2 New Hot Spots!

Exciting news. It is my pleasure to announce that our two newest hot spot affiliated restaurants are in Astoria, Queens! The first is “Bistro Les Minots” (www.bistrolesminots.com) and the second is “Sanford’s” (www.sanfordsnyc.com). Check em out on the web, use them as a meeting point for your shared rides, show them love, they are taking [...]

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Hot Spots!! Should sizzle in summer

This summer, Cabcorner.com is looking to line up as many retailers as we can to serve as value added “cab stands”, otherwise know as meeting points for Cabcorner users, so that the meet and greet part of the process prior to the sharing of a cab can be an experience that affords our riders with a [...]

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CabCorner to Launch on “Pixie Day”: 5/16/09!

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Tonight, at 12:01 a.m. May 16th, our team is finally launching CabCorner.com!
It’s been ten months since McKinney first approached me with his idea, and in that time we’ve worked hard to bring to life our website.  With your help, support, and publicity, we can build the audience necessary to power our vision.
Cabcorner.com is designed to [...]

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The Hotspot Phenomenon; How it works

Terms to be familiar with:
- A Rider is a Cabcorner.com user who engages the site for the purpose of traveling by way of taxi or car service.
- A Spot is a predetermined location, which enables us to protect the privacy of the real location of any given Cabcorner user while also providing us with [...]

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New York City’s destinations

Jon, Sankho and Company:
I’ve attached the beginning of what could develop into our database of common name origination/destination points.  I encountered two problems:
First, the task of finding out all of the addresses for these landmarks is incredibly boring.
Second, many of these spots don’t have formal mailing address, but rather only cross-street address identifiers.  Sankho, can [...]

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A New Revenue Opportunity

Fellas:
We’ve hashed through the conventional revenue streams of the website: the sponsored confirmation emails; banner ads on the site; popular “hot routes” sponsors; brick-and-mortar enterprises willing to pay for us to post our meet up “hot spots” outside their business.
We’ve painstakingly covered the unconventional income sources from our marketing efforts: CabCorner promotional items brand-stamped by [...]

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