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Today is a great day!

Tuesday, February 7th, 2012

Tushar joined CueBlocks as a web analyst and became a vital part of the team of heady Internet Marketers at CueBlocks!

However, time had to play its part and Tushar had to move on but not without sharing his CueBlocks’ experience.

Here it goes:

Today is great day. I got up a little late in the morning, but it’s okay because I have up-till 10 to make it office. I’ve been looking forward to it, since I slept while reading last night. I’ve been looking forward to reaching office while people are still coming in, so that I can also participate in the morning chatter than goes around, when everybody’s sharing updates and saying their greetings, not because they have to, but because they want to.

I’m looking forward to it, because where I work, I am encouraged to do what I love to do, and share space with a set of people, who are not only creative, intelligent, good natured (although these are important things), but more importantly they are grounded, value-driven and a hell of a lot of fun to be with.

I want to reach office as soon as possible, have my set of meetings, answer my emails, do some serious data analysis (happens to be one of my interests), and then enjoy some lunch, before I get into the a very serious battle of FIFA 2012 on the Xbox.

I’m looking forward to that time after lunch, when I come back from the entertainment area and start the second half of the day.

And as I get up, I play this song on my phone which was playing last evening in the office. I look forward to that time the most. It’s when the day is almost over; people are wrapping up their work and enjoying some light music.

I am also looking forward to have some great conversations over the loads caffeine that I consume. Just yesterday, I enjoyed a conversation about people and what motivates them with a dear friend.

And finally I’m looking forward to it, because it’s going to be different than yesterday. It will perhaps be more challenging with the new projects that have come in and most fun part will be to figure a way around them with the help of my creative and committed teammates.

Yep. I simply cannot wait. I jump from the bed and start getting ready.

Every working day of the last few months, I have gotten up in the morning and felt like that.

And as a consequence, I now share genuine personal and professional relationships with many in the office, I’ve grown and learnt beyond anything I had ever imagined and I am as proud as one can be, of being a CueBie.

That, is my story. What’s yours?

 

CueBlocks at the 2012 DevFestX, Gurgaon!

Monday, February 6th, 2012

The GTUG (Google Technology User Group) Delhi is organizing the DevFestX, the X-tended version of the popular Google-inspired DevFest for developers from Feb 11th through Feb 12th 2012 at the Google office in Gurgaon, India and we’re going to be there! Want to know more? Visit: http://www.devfestx.com/gtug/delhi/2012/sandbox.php#

CueBlocks along with other industry specialists will be taking on the stage to decipher and deliberate Google’s amazing applications and game-changing technology. So we along with the folks from GTUG Noida, Marketado, Google, Mahindra Satyam, Hashtash Studios, Booz&Co., the Saltlist, will be enjoying some real development fun at the DevFestX.

Is being there enough?

Not for Aman Alam, our very own Android-struck developer who will be giving a talk on ‘Understanding OAuth and implementing ‘Sign-in with Twitter’ in your Android applications’. Way to go Aman, make all of us proud!

Other speakers at the DevFestX are: Michael Van Ripper, Program Manager, Developer relations at Google, Rajdeep Dua, Lead Developer Advocate at Google India, Badrinath Kulkarni, Android Developer, Bangalore, Ashish Sharma, Principal, Booz&Co.

DevFestX talks will be followed by what seems like an exciting hackathon session on the last day where the developers will be brainstorming to create a viable code. Which, by the way is nothing less than out-in-the-park fun for the development community.

CueBlocks is looking forward to being part of DevFestX and thanks DevFestX for giving us the opportunity to contribute.

We wish the organizers a successful venture and all the very best!

One of those moments!

Tuesday, December 13th, 2011

Yep. This is being telecast live from the office. We’ve been happy and smiling and making random movements since like, yesterday.

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Why, you may ask are we still doing this? Because Nosheen bought a BlackBerry and that was reason enough for us to indulge in some cool GIF imagery.

Note- Let your eyes linger on this for more than a minute or two, and you will notice cheeky head shakes, some rather curious actions and most importantly smiles on all the faces :)

A Goddess just descended on CueBlocks

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

There is no dearth of work in our office, especially when it comes to being creative. It was just one of those regular days when the idea of Thesis came in to being. In-fact, calling it an ‘idea’ is an understatement because it was actually a stroke of sheer brilliance which came from our very own creative designer, Mandy.

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From Left to Right – Thesis(in the making) and Mandy

For about a span of 5 Days, co-workers passed by looking at Mandy as if he was painting the wall with ambiguous figures. From the first day, to the next day and the next the excitement kept building up, until their came a day, when we saw her, in full form.

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And now, it is hard to pass by without a glance. In fact we know of some who come to hall under the garb of getting some coffee or playing pool, but what they really want to do is take a glance at her, in the hope that she may open her beautiful eyes and say those magical words-

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Yep, the beauty of Thesis doesn’t lie in her voluptuous hair, or her eyes, or the way she seems to be gliding farther and farther away from you, but in her maker, her creator-

Thank you Mandy:)

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Thesis (Greek θέσις Thesis) is a Primordial Goddess of Creation.

Mad Monday Version 2.0- Chatur & Carlos

Monday, November 21st, 2011

And while they get all the attention for being the awesome twosome, we found out that there is much more to our beloved Beagles than we know of…

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Mad Monday Version 1.0 – What the Panda?

Monday, November 14th, 2011

In this office full of hard-core programmers & savvy marketeers, crazy conversations aren’t hard to come by. So we decided to make a comic strip about some of them. Here we go!

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CueBlocks.com is Now 6 Years Old!

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

CueBlocks.com completed 6 years on July 12th 2011 and what a ride it has been! From stumbling through time to walking the length, running the course and now gearing up for a full throttle, CueBlocks has experienced all the insanity that a growing business can and should. So that the time to come will bear witness that we’re doing things better, with more passion and are ever-more ready for adventure both on and off the digital marketing field. All this and much more with our lucky mascots – Chatur and Carlos :)

Benchmarks can be quite stagnating so when CueBlocks.com reached the 5th year one, it was time to take things to the next level. We had to make the sixth year more exciting and awesome enough to carry forward the spirit on to the seventh as well. So let’s see what the sixth year was about and was it promising of a brighter future?

Bigger & Better Office
– While CueBlocks.com warmed up its position on the web, its space expanded in real time too. We occupied the floor below and transformed it into a new extension of the CueBlocks office. It now houses our much loved entertainment area with a pool table, table tennis table, PS3 & Wii and other great stuff! Oh and the web development division is also on the same floor. :)

Certifications
– CueBlocks, already a Google Adwords Certified company, recently became a very proud Magento Professional Partner and a Microsoft adExcellence company. Woohoo!

Goals – We made our foothold stronger as an eCommerce Design, Build and Marketing agency. CueBlocks is thrilled to offer tried, tested and trusted services in eCommerce and mobile commerce development & marketing. We ensure that any store (as long as it’s online), big, small, medium or multi-channel will create enough buzz on the web with us.

Being Fun & Fantastic – Hell yeah! This is something, that no matter how many years go by, will always remain a core value at CueBlocks. Whatever we undertook in the year gone by and will undertake in the years to come, will not be without our stamp of making it totally fun and fantastic!

So here’s to another stepping stone and another year of striving for excellence!

Great job Cuebies (current and alumni)! Congratulations and cheers for the exciting times ahead. :)

And now if we could only decide on where to party!