Every few months, some paper somewhere will cover Michael Husted's company, iPlayers.net. I first wrote about it a couple years ago but kind of ignored it after that because nothing new was being reported. Now it looks like things have really gone well for him.

After several years of running the business from his garage, iPlayers was recently bought by The Active Network, which has more than 400 employees headquartered in a gleaming office tower in Sorrento Valley. The Active Network chose iPlayers over the many competitors because it was easy to use and navigate for players and coaches, said Tina Wilmott, a company spokeswoman.

In case you don't know, iPlayer.net is a site where athletes can post videos of themselves showing off their skills. Coaches and whoever can then go to the site instead of having to sort through a bunch of video tapes or DVDs if they want to see a particular person. For this, the athlete pays $260 per year. Of course, posting to YouTube is free, but for your money you get significantly better video quality than YouTube and some other service that breaks down footage. And for all his hard work, Husted got paid for his company and a job with The Active Network. But more importantly, he got five minutes alone in the supply closet.

"I have a stapler," he said. "I don't think I'll ever use one, but I had to have one."

Everyone remember how much Husted liked that stapler when they find The Active Net headquarters burned to the ground in a couple years.