Anand Chandrasekaran

Thoughts on eBusiness, web strategy, and the net

I’m Back!

After a nice long three week vacation to Washington DC, Philadelphia, and Hawaii, I am well rested and ready to roll! BTW..for those of you that haven’t been to Philadelphia, be sure to check it out. I had no expectations going in and I left with some great memories. I hate to [...]

Burrp! … A Year Later

As many of you already know, I am no longer associated with Burrp!. But I do want to mention that today is the 1 year anniversary of the launch of the site. I have a lot of mixed feelings regarding how things went down earlier this year with my departure. In the [...]

Second Life Hype

I have been reading endless buzz about Second Life. Yet I don’t know anyone that spends regular time on the site. Sure everyone has checked it out, but do they go back? This could be the classic example of over-hype (think Flock). I could be wrong. I did at one [...]

Web Properties

In my last post, I touched upon independent income streams as a good way to achieve financial freedom as seen by Robert Kiyosaki. While Mr. Kiyosaki emphasizes real estate, the same can hold true for “web properties” or websites. There are thousands of undervalued websites across the internet. These range from small forums on niche [...]

Check out this excellent post by Moxie. I tried all three including attachment_fu. In the end I went with a user suggestion to check out upload_plugin and I chose to use that on my project. The reason being is documentation, documentation, documentation!!! Though I really liked FileColumn, I ran into [...]

Rich Dad, Poor Dad

I just finally finished the timeless classic, Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki. Though nothing he said was truly eye opening, he did have a great narrative to emphasize some very good points. The main point and theme of the book being independent income streams. In his mind, the true path [...]

People always seem to ask me about my recommendations on hosting companies when it comes to small and midsized businesses. Though needs can vary greatly from company to company, below are the hosts I have found to provide the best overall service.

Rackspace
ServInt
ServerBeach

I know that the knock on Rackspace is that it is expensive, but [...]

Web Design Inspiration

I was just forwarded a link to a post titled, 34 Places to Get Design Inspiration. I thought it was an excellent post on places to go to get your creative juices flowing. When I am in web design mode (or make my best attempt), I usually go to several places for inspiration [...]

Top 5 Firefox Extensions

While I was migrating my Firefox profile from one Windows XP profile to another, I somewhat panicked when I couldn’t get it to work and thought I had lost my valuable extensions. Well luckily I got Firefox to work and wrote down which extensions I use. I wonder if there is a way [...]

OpenID with Ruby on Rails

Anyone else out there trying to grapple with OpenID? Well you are not alone. I still haven’t implemented anything, but I like the concept and I’m hoping to add OpenID verification to one of my sites in the near future.
While conducting research, I came across this great write up by Dan Webb, The [...]

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