Jon:
The New York Times Magazine features a comprehensive look at the ZipCar phenomenon in today’s issue.  I was struck by the way in which its target audience perfectly aligns with ours:
Zipcar, which has been doubling its ranks annually for much of its existence, sees many more prospective converts, an environmentally aware, cost-conscious, Internet-bred generation of [...]

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 [...]

The biggest challenge CabCorner faces, like any startup Dot Com, is reaching the critical user mass.
In order to attract users looking to share a cab ride so as to reduce travel costs, CabCorner requires multiple users creating or joining taxi trips through the website.  But if there are no fellow travelers to be found, there [...]

Maybe you too have walked out of Penn Station in midtown NYC and seen a line of taxis on 7th ave, with a larger line of people next to it, and wondered something out loud to yourself:
“Why are all these people waiting for a cab when there’re clearly 8 empty ones in front of them? [...]