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Lessons from Community Fickleness

A few weeks ago I got a spammy email from Publicis Mojo representing Metamucil in an attempt to engage the blogging community. Nick Hodge covered it nicely here since a number of us blogocrew received the email. Given that I’ve made more than my fair share of...

mixin @pollenizer, pollenizer l: mixin

You may have noticed us mentioning a product called mixin in our social media lately. There’s a good reason for this: we’ve been scoping out a relationship with the company that goes beyond the usual ‘hired gun’ deal most consultancies offer...

Wasted Opportunity With ‘Don’t Reply’

ANZ Internet Banking Customer Friendly Language Originally uploaded by bigmick I got this email in my secure email form my bank. If you can’t read it, it says; “Dear Customer, Please do not reply to this message. It is sent from an unmonitored mailbox and...

Sydney Co-Working Space: March, 2009

Great, Big News! Phaedon from Mitchellake has come through after a hefty battle with landlords, Gladiators and electrical substations with a soon-to-be office and galactic central point for entrepreneurial energy in Sydney. Ground Floor 98 Riley Street Darlinghurst...

Pollenizer keeping up with their Joneses

My name is Alan Jones, and that’s been a heavy burden to bear for most of my adult life because of the notoriously tetchy radio personality and F1 race driver of the same name. Now Pollenizer has an Alan Jones of its very own. And that Alan Jones is me. This...

Product Testing Dangers

Recently on a flight, I befriended a young family with a baby and a 3 year old. At Mogeneration we have been working on a kids game called Moo Shake (now in the app store) that makes a bunch of crazy animal sounds. So I decided to let the young girl test it. She loved...

What Apps Do You Open By Default?

I love lots of apps, but Skitch is like my lungs. I can’t live more than 30 mins online without it. Atariboy, if you’re listening, I’d pay $100 a year for it. One true test that I’ve spoken about before of whether a website or webservice is...

3eep Wins National Innovation Award

As the head of technology for 3eep it was exciting to hear last week that they were awarded a National Innovation Prize for Digital, ahead of a selection of some of the most innovative online and digital media companies across the country. The key criteria of the...

Critical UX insight today! And pirates!

Critical UX insight (and pirate eraser!) Since we got back to work on Trippything a few weeks ago, Elliot’s been busy getting the back-end code base into a whole new, improved shape, which will allow him to spend less time building stuff from scratch which has...

You’ve launched a beta: what next?

I have just started working with a new company called Photographic Art Gallery. They have a lot of great offline experience and I’m helping them understand online and social media. We were talking about how everything goes nuts when you launch and how you never...