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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...

New client news: welcome messmo!

The phones are running hot at Pollenizer this week, not because we’re flogging Christmas specials, but because our latest clients are the team who’ve built messmo, an Australian mobile application. messmo is an interesting product because it lets users...

The Australian Innovation Review is Out!

The Australian Innovation Review (AKA ‘The Cutler Report’) has been released. What does this mean for us? We all have some serious reading to do? VC mates, Angel mates, start-up mates…. what do you think? I have pulled out just the recommendations...

Switchwise Switched On

Another Pollenized start-up came to life this weekend. Switchwise is a Melbourne-based company with the simple, yet powerful goal of saving us money on our energy bills. Australia now has an easy to use solution (like uSwitch in the UK) for comparing energy plans and...

Mick’s Trip: USA and Spain

I’m heading off this Saturday for a business/holiday. TechCrunch 50 in San Francisco, some work in New York, some work in Barcelona and some not-work in the rest of Spain and maybe Andorra. Mick’s Travel Plans If you’re around, let me...

2Vouch Launch Recruitment Referral Into Beta

Gratz to the crew at 2Vouch Online Recruitment Referral crew for plunging into beta. It’s looking and feeling great and the feedback is going to sharpen you guys up even more. 2Vouch let you earn referral rewards in cold hard cash to refer good people to good...

Xumii Going to DEMO

Pollenizer wishes the Xumii Mobile crew best of luck with their upcoming (Next Sunday) trip to the DEMO conference. Nail the six minutes and then stay up for the six hours of pitching that...

Got Big News? Get Your Startup On ZDNet

I met up with Renai Lemai recently to talk about the startup community in Sydney and he was very enthusiastic about doing more, writing more and getting amongst it. We had a bunch of ideas, including them hosting an Officially Friday, but one that we can start on now...

Xumii and Pollenizer

Quick exciting announcement (or very excitement as Jennifer from Xumii would say) about a new team we’re working with. Xumii! It’s mobile. It’s social. It’s growing fast. Pollenizer is working with the welcoming team in Sydney to refine the...

Sydney iPhone Application Development Lab

A brief announcement that Pollenizer has started working with clients to help them develop web businesses based around iPhone applications. If you are in Sydney, and are looking at adapting your application for the iPhone or have a new idea for an iPhone business or...