A friend and ex-colleague has just started in a new role building a team to run social media for the Obama administration. One of their most interesting initiatives is to ask the community to contribute questions to an online town hall in the US tomorrow. So far, 41,306 people have asked 42,126 questions and cast [...]
Is today the last day of our web business? Should we pack up our stuff and do something new? Has this idea failed? Will it ever gain momentum?
Image thanks to Zoomar
Have a meeting once per quarter and put this proposition to the team. It’s not about being negative. It powerfully shakes us out of that [...]
I’ve been involved with the idea of ‘data portability’ for a while now. Data Portability is the principle that data on the web should be easy to securely move around by those that have the rights to do so.
At Ad:tech09 in Sydney I participated in a panel discussion with Ross Dawson, Chris Saad and Danny [...]
Don’t be tempted by the 98 octane hi-revving twin-supercharged speedster; sometimes it’s a simple, reliable, well-understood and easy-to-repair diesel you need.
One of my favourite episodes from Top Gear is the “Big Trip To Africa”. Jeremy Clarkson and his two sidekicks have to buy a car each for £1,500 and then drive it across Botswana. James [...]
Pollenizer’s focus is on building web businesses, you can see that through the focus of our site, our blog posts and our experiences. However, something you might not know, is that many of us are also quite interested in the impact that technology has on civil society (NGO’s, not-for-profit).
Today, I had the privilege of sharing [...]
Businesses offering software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications acquire hundreds (or thousands) of new customers per week and generate an incredible amount of data from resulting transactions. It is common-place to see software platforms that service thousands of customers each week, with each interaction leaving a trail of data that tells something about the health of your business.
Hidden [...]
You remember the future we were promised, right? It had flying cars, robotic housemaids, one-piece shiny suits and meals in convenient pill form. We don’t live in that future because the people planning utopia fell in love with their own beliefs about what consumers wanted. They missed the gross and subtle cues that consumers use [...]
I am speaking at ad:tech in Sydney tomorrow. The session I’m talking on is “Data Portability: Usage & Strategies”, on 10 March at 2.20pm. If you want to come along, let me know because I can get you 20% off.
Here’s some detail on the session.
Data Portability: Usage & Strategies
As an online user, you most likely [...]
We are constantly on the look out for great people to join our team and right now we have some immediate needs described below. Let us know if you are interested or forward this post to your network.
India
We are looking for engineers to join our team in Trivandrum, India. We are especially interested [...]
Thomas Friedman said ‘The World is Flat’. It certainly is for Pollenizer.
Here’s my ‘office’ on Sunday.
We were meeting with Mixin in the Swiss Alps. Mixin is a Swiss company we recently invested in and to augment their team with the Pollenizer squad. Mixin will help you manage your crazy social life and we can’t wait [...]
