As if the world stock markets’ precipitous fall, beginning in 2008,  and the carnage that quickly spread from Wall St. to Main St. wasn’t enough to make one wonder if or how they could have avoided the downdraft, being a New Yorker in this recession has just gotten a little more poignant. [...]

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 [...]

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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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 [...]