Google Analytics

Analytics at its best. If you have a website and want to know everything about who's accessing it, from which geographies and for what time. Google Analytics is what you need to have. And its absolutely free. Since I had enabled google analytics for my site I have just been zapped to see what all data does google analytics provides.

Google guys you rock.

Nearing 300 visits

With over 10 days since launch www.bestvidon.com has pulled close to 300+visits out of which we have over 131 unique visitors. This definately is a good start hope to see this number increasing gradually. The new look and the rapidly updating television commercials will be a treat to watch for everyone.

Get set go...

The first ever campaign for www.bestvidon.com has been launched today. At the back glass of my car goes the first ad campaign. The car is now all set to roll down the streets of Mumbai and Pune.

Forbes India

Forbes has recently launched its India edition. This is one of the best magazine for decades now. In last weeks issue there was a big story on Anand Deshpande our MD. The struggle for Persistent Systems, its inception, growth so far and the future that lies ahead. A very nicely written article with some hard facts that have been highlighted. Specially on the growth path when other IT giants that have grown two folds why is it that Persistent could only manage a mear $100mn in 19 years now. Sure the future will a different story to tell. With the recession slowly going and the bright side of the sun that is visible now, it will a story to cover about how Persistent cashes on this coming opportunity and makes a world out of this.

Aggressive Trade week

This week for the first time in my life I have seen so much of share trading. My friend Hima is helping big time in maintaining my portfolio. In fact the right word is that she is only managing the whole show. Thanks to her I have at least managed to make some quick money here.

Voice of Persistent

Music is in the air... Yesterday we had the grand finale of Voice of Persistent. The annual singing competition of our company. It was a nice fun filled evening and we were cheering up our friend Nishij who was among the 10 finalist. He sang really well. He made his place confirmed in the final top 5. It was a proud moment for his parents who had come all the way from Sangli to watch his performance live. We were sitting in the crowd waving the posters. We were privileged to have Prabhakar Jog as the chief guest for the evening. And it was indeed great for all of us to hear him say a few words. Our MD Anand Deshpande was present for the whole event and that kind of boosted the morals for each team member.

Pratapgad, Mahabaleshwar and Panchgani (PMP)

A weekend trip was planned with no destination finalized we all cramped into my Maruti 800 set off on the road to decide which place to go. Options kept flooding our brains from Rajmachi to Torna to Panhala and finally we decided to go to Mahabaleshwar, Panchgani and Pratapgad. Making sure we stop almost at every possible scenic spot we drove along the ghats, waterfalls, clouds, fog, ponds and plateaus.  Most importantly we managed to return back to our homes in less than 12 hours which apparently is considered next to impossible. Almost every waterfall on the way was being stopped and looked up with excitement. We were even greeted by a snake on our way back home. All in all an exciting trip over this weekend.

Movie Review: ICE Age3

Over this weekend saw the ICE Age3. Its a wonderful movie. I had missed watching the second part. :( The whole story flows smoothly along the movie Sid the main culprit for the movie or the reason for this movie ends up in the Dinosaur era in his attempts to establish a family. And the rest part of the movie is the journey to get Sid back home. Its definitely a  must watch for everyone.

My rating *****

Over to Internet

Finally yes, we have successfully developed and launched our first internet portal.

http://www.bestvidon.com/

For the best television videos on the internet log on to this site. Months of efforts with attempts from various angles have finally seen some fruit. Tough evolving but this site is definitely going to be our next big thing.

This idea could see some serious discussions happening around some time last month, we even developed a home version of the proposed portal. When finally it was decided to let experts handle the development task and we should focus on getting the data, plan for launch ready. For now its still a journey that has just begun but yes its a small step but a giant leap for us.

We would urge all of you to visit http://www.bestvidon.com/ and let us know your views on
admin@bestvidon.com

Everything that you say will help us position ourselves ahead of our competition and at the same time help you enjoy every bit of it.

My role model

For some years now I have considered this lady as my role model.

Julie Payette

Astronaut, Canadian Space Agency

It was the first time when i saw a video on NASA’s website about her thoughts and bang I was taken into a thought of life on how one should look at life. Today this lady had made trips to the Space and has conducted several space walks. These days she is aboard Endavour on STS 127. NASA’s mission to the ISS (International Space Station).

Metro on road

Two days of just news and news on the metro bridges coming crashing down to ground 0. It started with New Delhi and last night Mumbai joined the party. I wonder, if the other routes are safe to use and it also gives birth to another thought in my mind, if there is any corruption or some under cover deals that have happened with the materials used in construction.

Can’t say anything right now but for all we may know it might be just a coincidence or chain of events with a lead role played by Mr. Fate.

Weekend On Roads

Like every weekend this weekend was relaxing and fun filled. We went for a drive on the Banda Worli Sea link and it was a gem of a ride. The sea link is definately an engineering master piece. All this while people have been envisioning a quick shortcut road to south of Mumbai which is now a reality. Apart from that I took my car to Mumbai and needless to say the drive was just too good. Nice rain showers and fog all over, with mountains covered with vast green trees and grass.

OOO (Out Of Office)

Finally, after months of hard work :) and just work, our BD (Business Development) team managed to sneak a days leave and run away on its maiden outing. A group of 15 people cramped into a 17 seater bus. We started on Friday morning and came back on Saturday night. We went to kashid and Nagon beach. And a couple of forts as well. We did see a nice lighthouse at the base of Korlia fort. These two days it was a very pleasant view of the sea and the relaxed weather. More than anything it was such a nice feeling to be away from the mails, the calls and the happiness of being disconnected from the whole world.

On the trip we did some very funny things like traveled on roof of the bus and trust me the view from there was just ow some. Played cricket with a plastic ball and our team managed to snatch a victory from the opponents hand on the last ball. It was no less thriller than the T20. Had a blast on food for these two days. Hope we go on more such trips more often.

Attached are a couple of snaps from our trip.