Lets get this thing going again, shall we?
Hmmm...topics.
I could write about the current state of technology as we see it here at Soccour.
Sounds pretty boring for a first time in a long time post.
Or I could write about some of the latest product releases by our partners and the cool features that have been added to them.
Maybe next time.
How about a Riddle post?
Let's do it....
How does 36.1 miles + Go Big Red = Innovation & Opportunity???
Not really a fair riddle is it? :-)
It struck me as I logged in to finally update the SoccourBlue blog that Blogger was created by a company called Pyra Labs. Pyra Labs was co-founded by two young people by the name of Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan.
I don't have a ton of background on Ms. Hourihan, but there is plenty on Mr. Williams due to his eventual sale of Pyra Labs and Blogger to Google ten years ago in February, 2003 and then co-founding Twitter with Jack Dorsey in April 2007. Not a shabby résumé.
Evan Williams grew up on a farm outside of Clarks, NE. Population 363 as of 2011.
Now I'm a small-town guy, but 363 people is Tinytown, USA.
It makes York, NE (Population 7984 as of 1990) where I finished high school look like a metropolis.
Distance from Clarks, NE to York, NE? 36.1 miles.
Williams went to school at University of Nebraska-Lincoln for a year and a half prior to leaving to pursue his career.
I partied at University of Nebraska-Lincoln about the same time prior to leaving for the US Air Force. :-)
It goes without saying that Rural Nebraska isn't necessarily reputed as a technology-titan incubator, but here we have one of the true innovators of the Internet Era emerging from the Nebraska cornfields and changing the world.
36.1 miles + Go Big Red = Innovation & Opportunity.
That equation tells me we should always keep our eyes open, might be someone near us that will move mountains.
Next post...Soccour's take on some of the recent product refreshes/releases from our partners.
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