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New Exicon Website

August 9, 2010 Comments (12) Tweet

Today, we officially launch the new Exicon website.

Any of you who have been to our previous website may have found that it never really captured what we did, or who we really are.

This new site aims to remedy that. It not only looks better (thankfully!) but also gives a much fuller picture of who we are as a company and what we do, showcasing our areas of expertise, the kind of projects we have worked on, and our people, who after all, make it happen.

It’s been a real team effort with great project management dragging us over the line, thanks guys.

Keep watching as we’ll be using the site to showcase new technologies as they come out, both ours and people who have stuff we’d have loved to beaten to the punch!

Take a good look around and let us know what you think, we’d love to get your feedback. Enjoy!

Cat Rust, Founder & Partner

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Guess What This Is?

July 22, 2010 Comments (0) Tweet

Great Info graphic from Twitter

April 30, 2010 Comment (1) Tweet

Smart Networks

March 18, 2010 Comment (1) Tweet

A long time industry buddy of mine who founded Celta Consult sent me this link the other day as a result of a brief conversation during MWC in Barcelona. It’s a great article on Heavy Reading around Telecom Application Stores.

It’s sooooooo true. Developers really have a hard time with mobile operators and it is very difficult for operators to overcome this prejudice. Out of all the operators, I would consider Orange as the most innovative in terms of dealing with developers, even though they still suffer from NIH…

A lot of the examples and case studies listed in the article are really ‘editorialized’, targeting the main reader segment; your Telco community.

Seriously WAC? 24 Operators agreeing to the direction, strategy and direction of a consortium? I can’t see that going anywhere beyond a great press announcement in Barcelona.

JIL, WAC and other operator-led initiatives just have never proven to work, to many ulterior motives and vested interests and usually it’s supported in the form of human resources seconded from the “mothership” to the alliance, consortium etc. vs. an actual budget to an independent entity that can rip with governance provided by the seconded operator parties, but the CEO or lead needs to be hired independently without vested interest. It always helps if this individual is entrepreneurial and has an ego too. (more…)

Some Facebook Numbers….

October 22, 2009 Comments (0) Tweet

I just read an interesting interview with Vice President of Engineering at Facebook Mike Schroepfer on Venturebeat and with Sheryl Sandberg, COO on Techcrunch

- 300M active users a month
Pretty large population….

- People spend 8 billion minutes online on Facebook every day.
Hence Facebook next to Youtube/Google being the top 2 destinations on the Internet

- There are 2 billion photos uploaded each month and 20 billion total.
Consumers want to share Images and Videos to stimulate conversation and interaction

- There are 15,000 other partners accessing Facebook data through its Connect service.
Identity is proving an important element. Facebook connect is now available for mobile sites too.

- Yesterday, the company serviced over 5 billion API calls. Facebook Platform is growing at a much faster rate than the web site.

The impact of Facebook opening their API’s in 2007 is still underestimated. Twitter for that matter too. This changed the economics of the web and is the “dawn of the application economy” to quote Mark Pincus, CEO of Zynga. (more…)