A Nod to Old Friends
Posted on February 11, 2011 by Jexley
Back in my college days I was a bit of an outsider as a Montana Mountain Boy at Texas A&M. I didn’t have a lot of friends and my interests almost solely resided in an altiude > sea level. I loved hockey though and even though I’d only mucked about on a frozen pond, I got some cheap inline skates, a cheap plastic stick and fashioned a net out of leftover plumbing from the junkyard.
I went out, found a parking lot, and played. I wasn’t out to make friends or find like-minded folks, I just wanted to play. But the other stuff happened anyway. One day a couple of guys, who were from up North too, pulled over and asked me to come and play with them on Sundays. A great group got bigger and bigger and soon they built a league. Those two guys graduated and got married and I took over the league, filling my days with the thing I loved most.
Fast forward more years than I’m happy to count out loud, and those two guys are still at it, doing what they love and inviting others in on it. Through the magic of Facebook they’ve found me again, and have "pulled over" on this Interwebs Highway and said, "Hey, you’re doing something we like doing too!"
They like web stuff, I like web stuff, and we’re all good at it.
They’ve recently launched Cherry Tree and here’s a few of Tay’s words on it:
Our vision is to create a web product that helps parents change the child’s behavior through two mechanisms; 1) positive reinforcement by the parents and other key figures in the child’s life and 2) an incentive based gaming mechanism that keeps the child engaged and habitualizes the behavior. Or put more simply, think of it as a super duper sticker chart combined with a Facebook-ish status and messaging system that is private to a family.
So, bless ‘em, here’s my two old friends, getting their skates on, grabbing their sticks, and setting a game alongside a busy street.
If you get a chance, pull over and check ‘em out. You never know how it’ll turn out.
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