Digicorp Events Blog

Ad Mad Show 2008

March 30th, 2008 § 1

Hey all,

“Ek chutki sindur!”

This line used to remind us of OSO or Deepika but now we have one more reason to remember it- our AdMad show.

I must say it was totally Mad Ad shows. We were totally on ground with those hilarious ads that were presented.

The fun of the event started when we ( Payal & I) decided the products. Well! well! well! it was difficult and funny equally.

Then we thought of giving the teams the product but the not the members. I know we played really cruel. But then this increased the curiosity and hard work.

We divided the whole lot into 11 teams( 1 team of our directors didn’t participate due to lack of resources). The team leaders( Avadhesh, Vikas, Paresha, Rohit D,Vishal, Pranav, Suraj, Darshana, Ankit and Venkat) were asked to pick up chits of products from our bowl. So it was mere luck with what they land up to.

We gave the leaders their teams , only two day prior to the event. Now thats called fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They had to prepare everything from concept to dialogue, from costumes to props in just 2 days and work their official targets out also along with this. They had no leaves.

But hats off to their unity, they worked really hard and were ready with every thing on the day.
The ads had all variety of spices from Babubhai to Munnabhai, from Road romeos to Jaga don and from Africans tribal to Egyptian mummies and king . And how can i forget the MMS (Manmohan Singh ) , Mushi( Gen Musharraf) and Zuntal (Kuntal) . The ads were all full of surprise. The audiences and judges were wondering as what comes up next.

We (I and Payal) had tough time marking them for their efforts. We had marked them on the scale of 10 for Creativity, Presentation, Team effort & endorsing.

Must say everyone had endorsed their products very well. But winner was the best of the bests.

Finally Rohit’s team won everyones heart and the first prize with their Sanskar-The Rock Band’s act which included Himesh and Ek chutki Sindur. Apart from this the products that our teams endorsed were: Dr. Killer’s Dhoop, Durian Pocket Bed,

But truly, the experience was awesome with some great memorable characters of the show going down the memory lane like the Zingala la hu act, Babu bhais performance, Supriya entire look and performance( she looked like those 60s -70s beautiful actresses), Reporter from Raat Tak and Jaga don.

Everyone was just too good!!!!!!!!!!

Cheers to the spirit of the Digicorp people!!!!!!!!!!!

Looking forward for some great performance for the next upcoming event at the end of this month.
Am very sorry but the videos of this awesome show are facing some trouble in uploading. I will upload them at earliest.

Regards,
Purva

Treasure Hunt 2008

March 24th, 2008 § 1

Hello Friends!!!!!!!!

Here we come again! Now that we have shifted and almost settled. We started our events schedule. We asked the digitizers to dig out the treasure in half constructed office. Now we can also imagine how difficult and rib tickling it would have been.

This event started with the conceptualization by Payal, Minal and Hetvi . Where they had sleepless nights framing the hints and searching for the dig holes.

The clues were dugged up at all such places which one would never think in dream also like Murtuza’s C drive, Supriya’s PC , Abhishek’s bike, Sanket’s Car, Rajesh (himself),Ceiling, Helmet and where not.

Clues also were the most weirdest poetry one would have heard.they were like;
Almost 50 of us exist
Almost all work with logic and technology
Some thin, some fat but
always ready to bear the strokes!(Keyboard)

OR this one!!!!!!!
Packed and stuffed in the morn
Empty and light by the eve
Warm and fresh do i keep
Whatever it is that i hold.( Tiffin)

OR one like this!!!!!

Worn and Torn I am
Devoid of any embellishments
But all day I keep ringing
to make sure that the King doesn’t scream( Kuntal’s Cell)

The organising committee took all careful effort to make it difficult so as to increase the fun. and indeed it worked!!!!!!

On the day , all of them were divided into 6 teams( Purple, Green, Yellow, Blue , Dark Brown and Light Brown) to find out the dugged up treasure with the help of 7 clues scattered all over the place.

The teams had good time running up and down , right and left, screaming, shouting , confusing and raising their adrenaline flow.

It stood out to be tough competition as it was not about getting clues but about solving them out which took most of the time.

After long RACE , finally the Purple team (Bijal, Archit,Pranav, Kajal, Ashish and Brijesh) made it to the treasure box.

Here are some snap shots for the event…………….

In line with our tradition, we having next event on 29/03. and thats going to be AdMad show. so guys gear up for cracking a deal for your prior assigned innovated products.

I wish the winning team heartiest congratulations ( my wishes were pending na!) and wish everyone best of luck for the coming event.

Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Regards
Purva

@DIGICorp House

February 18th, 2008 § 14

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

2007: The Year That Was

January 1st, 2008 § 1

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

We have done it !!

November 9th, 2007 § 1

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

DIGICorp is opening up Sign in Style !!

November 8th, 2007 § 0

Opensocial version of Sign in Style is here! Now Orkut users will be able to take pleasure of designer signature using Opensocial application of Sign in Style. Above is the screenshot of the same how the application might look like.

At DIGICorp we constantly believe in innovating and adapting to new technologies to make our products better.

SIS-Orkut is one example of that.

Infact we started with Facebook application of Sign in Style much before this. Following is the screenshot of same.

The applications are just about to complete and we will be putting them live after the Indian New Year (Diwali).

This will open up altogether new user base for Sign in Style. 50m users of Facebook and more than 200m users of Opensocial network will be target user base.

What you think of this latest initiative by DIGICorp? please let us know.

Regards,
Abhishek

Another OpenSocial application

November 6th, 2007 § 0

This is yet another application developed by DIGICORP. Check out we are coming with many more applications on the social platform.

First Opensocial Application

November 6th, 2007 § 0

Hey I was playing around the OpenSocial and I prepared following sample application।Have a look at it we are coming with many opensocial apps.

This is just a plain iframe application so nothing much to brag about but still it is an opensocial application Anyways we are working on the platform and will be coming up with many more exciting applications very soon।

To develop application on Opensocial you will require Sandbox account of Orkut (if you want to build for Orkut).You can get that from http://sandbox.orkut.com/

Also you will require little understanding google gadget development.

Check out the opensocial APIs here।

Happy Coding,
Kuntal

Open Social is Out !!

November 3rd, 2007 § 0

Guys and Gals,
Just few days ago we saw how we can leverage Facebook and its platform to build exciting applications which can serve more than 50m users of Facebook. Now how about serving more than 100m users of all other Social Networking websites ??

That’s right, OpenSocial is out and it is out with bang. OpenSocial is a platform using which you can build applications only once and publish them on all the Social Networks like Orkut, Hi5, Ning, MySpace etc. Yes, MySpace is also there !!

OpenSocial documents are here and introductory demos are also explained here. We have been thinking about this all night and how we can quickly start developing applications. We have 2 facebook applications which we will definetely port on OpenSocial but also there is one more concept of ours i.e. www.petpooja.com. Application of Petpooja can very well work on Orkut as it is having maximum Indian crowd.

So everybody hang on for this exciting ride called OpenSocial

Regards,
Abhishek

We are going to Paris !!

November 3rd, 2007 § 0

Hey,
We are really really happy to announce that DIGICorp is selected in Top 50 companies out of 150 Applications to present at LeWeb3 in Paris.

We had submitted our Facebook Application concept “r4e” in the competition and they found it very interesting.

LeWeb3 is explained in following video.

If you would like to register for the event click below badge of the event.

Hoping to put up great show at Paris on December 11th, 12th.

Really Excited,
Abhishek