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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...

Linqia Being Pollenized

We are really proud to announce that Pollenizer started work with Linqia this week. As Google’s ambition is to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”, Linqia will be doing this specifically for the...

Sydney Shared Office Space Meetup

Just a note here that anyone in Sydney who is keen to grab some shared office space are welcome to come and meet at a potential space this Thursday at 4pm. 1 Barrack St, corner of Clarence St. More details here and...

About this blog

Since this is about the 100th blog started by Phil and I, I think it’s worth saying what this is about and what’s going here. This is the Pollenizer Blog, and it’s mainly going to be for Pollenizer specific news. New people joining the team, new...

Express your Interest: Co-Working Sydney

As wonderful as the nomadic life can be, the time has come for Pollenizer to pitch a tent in Sydney and we’d like to include you. We plan to allocate a significant part of our space to a co-working space. For those of you that are un familiar with the concept,...

Being a tall poppy, or wanting to be is good

At another interesting Innovation Bay dinner last night someone raised Tall Poppy again. She is a New Yorker who now lives here and wants to start a business. She raised Tall Poppy in a tone that said ‘well, I hate to say it, but….’. The funny thing...