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There was more auspicious startup news this week, this time from Ottawa, where a very talented group (partly made up of some long-term friends and former colleagues) has launched PickupPal. PickupPal is a really great idea, and I think represents a class of website/webapp that we’re going to see more and more of in coming months.

The idea is simple: it’s an online ride-sharing marketplace that uses the familiar socnet/Web2 techniques in pursuit of practical, real-world goals that go far beyond simply building and maintaining your social graph.

The other thing about PickupPal that is especially great is that ride-sharing by definition is environmentally friendly and can help people reduce their carbon footprint. We’re not all lucky enough to live in a city like (central) Montreal with world-class mass transit - and a practical, easy way to help get a few cars off the road is very timely.

about the terrible devastation in New Orleans, you need to no further than NOLA.com’s Hurricane Katrina 2005 site. The NO Times-Picayune is publishing only electronically during the crisis.

in Montreal and hundreds of other cities. Blork has some great pics of the scene downtown during the day. Unfortunately, for me to participate in “Car Free Day” it would have had to have been subtitled “Home Office Day” as my office is pretty much inaccessible by public transit - or at least not within an hour of leaving the house.