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 full-time, after a couple of months subcontracting under the Pollenizer label. 
Well, to be more precise, i like people who like code, but my chest isn’t big enough. Maybe you remember me from pre-Web 1.0 Bubble days as one of the startup crew on MSN Australia’s Sydney Sidewalk, or as Yahoo!’s second employee in Australia (the source of my ‘bigyahu‘ user id that I still use everywhere online), or as product director for Yahoo!’s English-language products in Asia. Perhaps you know me as one of the founders of online DVD rental service HomeScreen Entertainment, as an advisor on social media and product strategy to businesses as diverse as mobile startup Bluepulse and auto classifieds publisher Carsguide. There’s even a vanishingly small chance you know me from my record label or my new parent gift site since they are… well, vanishingly small. Here at Pollenizer I’ll adding my experience in web product strategy and online marketing communications the toolset already deployed by the Pollenizer team: Phil, Mick, Jon and Pierre. Together, we’ll keep helping “startups get big.” At the moment I’m helping mobile messaging company messmo, ‘peripheral social vision’ startup Mixin and green product and services publisher The Green Pages. That still leaves me 11pm-2am free most days, so if you’d like to say hi please drop me an email at alan [squiggle] pollenizer.com. 
It’s hard to believe this looked state-of-the-art in 1998, but it did!
