Archive for December, 2008

Lessons from Community Fickleness

Blog on December 23rd, 2008 0 Comments

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 community mistakes in my life and seeing that they [...]

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2008 and 2009 For Pollenizer

Blog on December 22nd, 2008 0 Comments

Firstly, thank you to our wonderful team and family who have worked with us this year in the team or as contractors. Peter Fellows, Bruno Mattarollo, Jon Tyson, Pierre Sauvignon, Alan Jones and June Cremin. Your commitment to getting the job done at a world class level is what is shaping the impression the market [...]

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mixin @pollenizer, pollenizer l: mixin

Blog on December 19th, 2008 0 Comments

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 web startups. As part of our due diligence around the deal, we’ve been using [...]

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Wasted Opportunity With ‘Don’t Reply’

Blog on December 18th, 2008 0 Comments

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 will not be responded to.”
What it really says;
“Dear person who gives us money, we [...]

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Sydney Co-Working Space: March, 2009

Blog on December 18th, 2008 0 Comments

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
Map Is Here
We will be moving in there in March and you can come and look at the space (pre-fitout) in early [...]

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Pollenizer keeping up with their Joneses

Blog on December 16th, 2008 0 Comments

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 week I’ve joined Pollenizer [...]

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Product Testing Dangers

Blog on December 14th, 2008 0 Comments

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 [...]

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What Apps Do You Open By Default?

Blog on December 9th, 2008 0 Comments

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 important to you is whether it makes your top [...]

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Startup Executive Summary For Capital Raising

Blog on December 3rd, 2008 0 Comments

Recently I’ve been excited to see some solid entrepreneurs pass me executive summaries for worthy businesses. Great to see.
However, these executive summaries have varied from average to amazing, and average just isn’t good enough. So to help these entrepreneurs out I have shared with them an executive summary template. It’s a template we use at [...]

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3eep Wins National Innovation Award

Blog on December 3rd, 2008 0 Comments

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 prize were
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