So we’re not sure what it was.

Whether it was our revenues quadrupling this year over last year (where they were anyway a 10x over the year before).

Or whether it was the opening of offices in Singapore, New Delhi and Kuala Lumpur, on top of growing the Bombay operation alone to over 50 people.

Or if that put us somewhere in the top 5 or 10 search marketing firms in the world.

Or if it was clients as diverse as HP, Kodak, INSEAD, MakeMyTrip, ICICI, HDFC and dozens more voting with their wallets for us.

Or if it was our December e-commerce advertising predictions coming true.

Or even the cool new algos our in-house math wonks came up with.

Or indeed our 10-million keyword database that’s threatening to grow alarmingly.

Or The Economist quoting us.

We really don’t know if any of these makes us among the “hottest companies in Asia” two years in a row.

It may even be the music on the 5th floor in Bombay. Or the mayhem on the 4th.

Or the purple walls in Singapore. Or the location above the sari shop in KL.

Or Sonali’s laughter. Or CJ’s tolerance of said laughter. Resham’s cool. Deepali’s calm. Lakshmi’s hyperactiveness. Or Geeta’s superduperhyperactiveness. Ratan’s quant leanings. Zainul’s wide-eyed wonder. Siddhesh’s spaced-out-ness. Javed’s oh-so-straight hair. Or even Shantala’s control-freakness.

We really, really don’t know.

But you know what - we’re pleased as heck to be among the “hottest”.

Or even the “coolest” - as one magazine termed us last year.

Just as long as we aren’t luke-warm.

Congrats to all Pinstormers, their clients, their families who put up with the work the clients threw at us, leaving us no time to even update our blog entries for over (gosh, we’re embarrassed!) 9 months, our friends, well-wishers, investors and everyone else in the whole wide world.

Let’s raise the temperature as we go into 2007!