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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 · Investment in innovation · Innovative [...]
