About
RAKESH AGRAWAL
I am Senior Director of Product at Audible.
I have been designing and marketing Internet services since 1993. I have worked at Tellme, AOL Search, uReach Technologies, washingtonpost.com and startribune.com.
On Twitter
- Four self serve lanes vs one staffed lane. Make manual line miserable enough and people will use the automation.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 24 minutes ago
- The Getty Center isn’t a good place; it’s a great place. 8 hours ago
- It’s not just HomePod that screws up your furniture. Here’s the stain left on my dresser from @Sonos playbase. https://t.co/80rOTSPtqn 11 hours ago
- Let’s do the same exercise with impotus... see if he can find countries on a map. Or point out the Colorado-Mexico… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 14 hours ago
- Reality is most large companies have been remote for a while. People don’t think twice about having development tea… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 14 hours ago
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Recent Posts
- Favorite things, day 5: podcasts
- Rakesh’s travel secrets for your holiday travels
- Favorite things, day 6: credit cards
- Favorite things, day 7: Hawaii
- Favorite things, day 8: TiVo
- Favorite things, day 9: Alaska Airlines
- Favorite things, day 10: First Republic
- Favorite hotels from around the world
- Let’s not call Goldman Sachs evil (yet, and for this potential infraction)
- 5 things Andrew Yang must do for the next debate
Top Posts
- A sample Groupon merchant agreement
- The experience is the product
- Revised Groupon merchant agreement
- Groupon resource page
- Can you understand me now?
- 35W bridge collapses in Minneapolis
- Shop Talk: A conversation with a Groupon merchant
- LivingSocial merchant agreement
- Watching American football in Dublin
- A look at Groupon's extremely lopsided merchant agreement
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Monthly Archives: August 2006
Geotagging the world with Flickr, part II
With the release of Flickr’s geotagging, I wanted to revisit the topic of personal maps. Now that people can geotag pictures, I want the ability to use that data on my maps. If I’m on Google Maps and pull up … Continue reading
Posted in flickr, geotagging, google, maps
Geotagging the world with Flickr
At long last, Flickr has released a geotagging interface. Geo tagging is the process of applying longitude and latitude data to assets – in Flickr’s case, to images. Why would you want to do this? It’s easiest to explain with … Continue reading
Posted in flickr, geotagging, google, gps, local search, maps, mashups, web 2, web 2.0, yahoo
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Using the Web to tell a better story
Today’s crash of ComAir Flight 5191 reminds me how poor a job online news sites (especially those from the mainstream media) do in using the Web. Instead of the plain graphic on the USA Today article referenced above, how about … Continue reading
Posted in airlines, email, media, newspapers
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Covering your search tracks on the Web
A friend sent me a link to a Firefox extension called TrackMeNot. It randomly sends searches to the major search engines (Google, Yahoo!, AOL and MSN.) The goal is to pollute the data stream so that it becomes hard to … Continue reading
A posh pooper
I’m always looking for ways to improve things. Some things, however, are fine as they are. Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal writes about an $800 toilet seat that uses a combination of water jets and an air drier … Continue reading
Posted in random
Get me to a human – fast
When it comes to banking, I do pretty much everything online. I review my statements, pay my bills, download transactions into Quicken, check my account balances, change my address. If I need to do it and there’s a way for … Continue reading
Posted in customer service
Using Caller ID to improve customer service
Whenever my cell phone rings, I know who’s calling. And I usually know what they’re calling about as soon as their picture (or name) appears on the display. I’d like to see companies do this for customer service. I ranted … Continue reading
Posted in airlines, customer service, travel
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