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CosmoRadio’s “Wake Up with Taylor” on Sirius XM praises CabCorner.com!
(Yo.  Just listen to this lady’s voice.  Yes, Taylor, I want to wake up with you.  I’m gonna brush my teeth real quick, then let’s do this…)
CLICK HERE to hear CabCorner celebrated by satellite!

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I write from South America, where I’m leisurely pursuing projects while Jon, Sankho, Lou and Ajay work frantically to birth our baby. A very promising discussion with the Taxi and Limousine Commission has given us new direction, and we’ve begun achieving a bit of notoriety as word of our offering spreads.

Surveying the streets of Santiago [...]

Today, the New York Times reported that the New York City government will soon be launching an official cab-sharing program, executed through a variety of different methods.  Read more about it in the New York Post HERE and on the CBS affiliate HERE.  Or from the Daily News HERE.  Or on amNewYork HERE.  Check out [...]

Jon and Sankho:
Check out this profile of Chris DeWolfe, co-founder and current CEO of MySpace.  The company is pursuing aggressive strategies to expand into every corner of the web.  It really highlights the power of applications, which Facebook popularized but which all social networks are now trying to figure out how to integrate, deploy, and [...]

Jon:
Here are a few articles I stumbled about while doing some research for CabCorner.  Thought they might be interest.
As Portfolio pointed out in its February 2009 issue, (see “The Best of Times“), the economic climate has presented an amazing opportunity for our website.  It noted that, historically, “when the economy tanks, conditions in Silicon Valley [...]

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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 [...]

Whoa whoa whoa…. let’s hope this doesn’t go too far.  This elitist piece of legislation could seriously hamper the evolution of our business model, which in turn would hamper the evolution of environmentally-conscious cab-sharing platforms.
NYC Considering Blocking Chatty Cabbies’ Phones
Frankly, I love that cabbies can be engaged in their own world, so that they’re less [...]

And I thought our boy Jon was tearing it up.  Apparently, CabCorner.com is just one of the many revolutions coming to the New York City traffic-scape.
Hey Sankho, make sure you’re taking the NEW Times Square into account when mapping rides down B-way!

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Alone once again, he paid his tab. Like so many Valentine’s Days in the past, he would return to an empty apartment, kept spotless just in case. The flowers he’d purchased the day before would be only slightly wilted on the windowsill, yet would nonetheless serve as the painful reminder that Valentine’s Day would again [...]

Cab Companions:
I stumbled across a site that utilizes a simple Google map application  to replicate our cab-sharing model.  It’s crippled by bugs, but demonstrates that the CabCorner idea is catching on.
www.CabShareNYC.com
ALSO:
Check out the “Mind if we save the world?” post below; I’ve replaced Bloomberg’s full State of the City Address with the relevant clip demonstrating [...]