NO NO we are not going to stop doing events. They will happen at regular intervals as always. As I like to say “Work and Play never stop at Digicorp”!
But I may stop posting it here as I am using our Facebook page extensively now. We have also built a good audience on our official Facebook page and interactions are frequent over there. And sincerely I do not like the delay in updating this blog. Updating Facebook page is much faster and easier.
So from now on I will be updating all latest events and happenings at Digicorp on our Facebook page. I request you all to follow it if you are not doing that already.
Once in a while if the event is huge and deserves its own post, I will do it here.
Till then see ya on Facebook 
Finally it was last Saturday of the month and it was time for Movie of the Month
After the comedy of “The Pink Panther” show and thrilling experience of “The Ghosts and The Darkness” this time we had “Cheaper by the Dozen“ – a super comedy starring Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt.
cheaper-by-the-dozen-(2003)
We have 2 Steve Martin movies out of 3 now! Yes I am big fan of him. (We have to see Cheaper by the Dozen – II and The Pink Panther – II now)
Everybody enjoyed the movie to the fullest and I am already looking forward to the next movie of the month. I am sure everyone agrees!
In fact we have already started getting suggestion for the next movie. One is “CRASH” and other is “Resident Evil – III”. Thanks for the suggestions Aditya and Nachiket. Keep them coming.
oDesk site of the month contest is here and we are excited about this one in particular. Why? because one of the site which we designed and developed from scratch is there in the contention.
The site is “i.was.there” and it is an excellent site for music lovers. Check out the site and vote for it below if you think it is worth it. You can rate live music and do many more things here.
After you click on the badge above, click on “Vote Now” button to see the list of the sites in contention. Find “i.was.there” from the list (it has black logo with white text) and click on “Vote Now”.
Looking forward to your vote
The year 2008 is over now and again it is time for a post summarizing the year at Digicorp. But this time Payal, Sanket and Nachiket has done most of the job for me.
They have created one beautiful newsletter highlighting main events of Digicorp. Check out the newsletter here.
“Even as they celebrated their graduation ceremony in May 2003, Abhishek Desai, Kuntal Shah, Sanket Patel and Nachiket Patel had little idea that their camaraderie would turn into a business venture someday.”
This is how the story starts. I am talking about digicorp’s story in latest edition of India Today supplement “Simply Gujarati”. India Today is one of the most popular magazine of India and we are honoured to be featured in there.
Please visit India Today online edition to read the full article.
Hello Digitizers,
Finally we are proud owner of our own bigger, better place called “DIGICorp House”! I am writing this blog on the very first day we have moved here.
After months of hardwork, tension and stress less than half of the office is completed just sufficient to encompass existing development strength of digicorp which is around 50.
Places of 4 founders are still not done and they will keep wandering around with their laptops in and out of the conference rooms.
There were mixed reactions on day one from digitizers!! few of them liked the bigger terraces and place overall but they also disliked little conjusted places for them. I think the main problem is they have lost their privacy here as everyone can see everyone in the office. They can not scream now on anyone because it will be heard in whole office. But there were some serious issues also on which we will ofcourse work.
It will take some time to get adjusted to the new place as we all are missing the 10th floor terrace of old office but we have moved to the better place that is for sure as there is scope of expansion here which we are dire need of.
I am going to upload lots of pictures and videos of the new office. Please hang on until then.
What do you think of new DIGICorp House ?? Please feel free to comment.
Thanks,
Abhishek
Dear All,
Happy New Year to everyone.
The year of 2007 will be remembered as one of the most happening years in DIGICorp’s history.
We have seen a lot of changes, lots of excitement, up, downs, failures, successes in this year. I would like to summarize some of the major things that made up the year, here. Please let me know if I am missing anything important here.
1) Launch of SignInStyle.com
We never thought that a small need of mine and a small input from Kuntal about it can make us do this. Minal (my wife) and I discussed the work flow of SIS exactly one year before, on 31st December 2006 in the parking area of Sterling Hospital. Starting from that day SIS has seen a lot. It has seen in Economic Times, News Coverage in CNBC Awaaz and has had lot more coverage in media.
It has seen a hardworking, dedicated team of calligraphers who have worked day and night to complete almost 5000 user requests we have seen so far and developers who launched this product in almost no time.
We thank you all for the same.
2) Launch of PetPooja.com
Sometimes copying a service is not as easy as it seems. After seeing similar service working in Kuwait 2 years before we thought of launching one in Ahmedabad. But at that time we found that Ahmedabad was not ready for service like this and that we were thinking ahead of time. But before 6 months when we saw similar service in Bangalore we became restless and decided to have one immediately.
Too many design changes, change of plans, change of functionality, change of leadership, long development hours…you people have seen it all. But we would like to thank you for being there always when we wanted.
New year resolution for us this year is to make PetPooja a success.
3) Launch of Rivals4Ever.com
We can call it one of the biggest success of DIGICorp so far. Not the concept itself but being selected for it in LeWeb3 startup competition. And being the only Indian company in final 30 was quite an achievement. But there are lots and lots of things to do before we can actually call it a success.
We thank all the developers and designers who worked day and night to complete the product before the demo day. Looking forward to getting similar support in coming year.
New year resolution, to make R4E a success (again)
4) Facebook Application Development
From the beginning of DIGICorp as a company we had one thing clear, we wanted to do something different and we just don’t want to be a project development company. Of course project development is something we love to do and we are going to get lots of interesting projects in new year.
But as a company it is our responsibility to get into latest developments of the market. Facebook is one such development that happened in year 2007. It opened up its platform for developers in mid 2007 and losing no time we launched 3 applications on Facebook platform. All credits to php team for learning it fast.
You can access 2 applications from below link
http://apps.facebook.com/rivalsforever
http://apps.facebook.com/signinstyle
3rd application is still in development and private.
5) Kuntal and Sanket got married
Well, not to each other as the title might suggest. Two of the Directors of the company got married and lost their bachelorhood. Poor them but I don’t pity them as I have already lost mine long ago
6) Dedicated HR for DIGICorp
No more endless waiting for appointment letter, joining letter, this letter, that letter etc. DIGICorp has a full time HR person now because of Kuntal .
Thank you very much Payal (Kuntal’s wife) for joining us and making our life much much easier.
7) New clients
DIGICorp has added many more clients in year 2007. Avot Media Inc, Abasys Technologies, Kanaga Networks are few of the major clients. Their projects are of such high quality that any development team of our industry would envy it. But that means lots and lots of hardwork which most of you are seeing right now.
Losing few stars of DIGICorp
DIGICorp has lost few great people this year such as Siddhartha, Mahendra, Dipen, Milan and Mamta. Please forgive me if I have missed some but any person going out of DIGICorp is a big loss as we have a small closely knit team of developers. All the best to all of them for whatever they do in their future. We are sure they are going to be a success.
9) Dedicated Design Team
No more running after freelance designers for our designs and small small changes. We have great designing team with us now. All the best to Supriya and Mikul for future, I am sure you are going to get hard time.
10) New Office for DIGICorp
How could I miss this so far?? We are the proud owners of newer, bigger office now. We will be shifting there very soon.
I think this is it for now. Please let me know if I have missed any points so far. Your comments are most welcome.
Happy New Year,
Abhishek
Hey Guys,
Great great news!
We are selected in Top 30 finalists to present in LeWeb3 at Paris.
Check out the list on their blog here.
As they say it was not easy to get selected as there were more than 120 applications and slots were only 30. But we have made it!
This will be first of its kind experience for DIGICorp. And we now can not wait to goto Paris.
Happy Diwali,
Abhishek
Hello All,
I would like to write about the first monthly event happened at DIGICORP “My Lovely Space”. The event went great. Everyone participated with full zest. Thanks a lot to our young and dynamic management and even younger and more dynamic participants. How can i forget to thank our judges , who spent their valuable time for us.
All the teams performed great. The competitions was so tough that tie happened for first place and the gift was shared by both of the teams.
The winners were “The Temple – Theme” and “The Retro – Theme”.
Regards,
Kuntal
