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
- #ux Supercharger network is a huge advantage, but finding these things is a PITA. Who would guess that this pod (40… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 3 hours ago
- More travel trivia: which of these airlines doesn't fly out of JFK? 7 hours ago
- If you were to merge and de-dupe the list of carriers at LAX and JFK, there are 95. 51 serving both airports, 26 se… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 9 hours ago
- First time I’ve noticed this on an itinerary: “Your estimated carbon footprint for this trip is 2.42080 tonnes of C… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 14 hours ago
- Where do planes taxi *under* passengers? There are a few where they taxi over cars. (JFK and ORD for example.) 15 hours ago
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Recent Posts
- Lobsterclass – free classes on product management
- Getting down to numbers: quantitative research
- Pricing the COVID-19 vaccine
- Favorite things, day 1: podcasts
- Rakesh’s travel secrets for your holiday travels
- Favorite things, day 2: credit cards
- Favorite things, day 3: Hawaii
- Favorite things, day 4: TiVo
- Favorite things, day 5: Alaska Airlines
- Favorite things, day 6: First Republic
Top Posts
- The experience is the product
- MovieBeam's (sort of) video on demand
- Because manholes are round
- Reading license plates with Google Street View
- Let's not call Goldman Sachs evil (yet, and for this potential infraction)
- A sample Groupon merchant agreement
- A look at Groupon's extremely lopsided merchant agreement
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Daily Archives: October 10, 2006
Following local search to nowhere
One of the big frustrations I have with local search is that the data is often old. With many sites, the information can be 18 months old. More than once I’ve driven to businesses that were no longer in business. … Continue reading
Posted in city guides, google, local search, web 2.0, yellow pages
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Talking back to the media
I wrote yesterday about the importance of newspapers engaging with their readers. Over the last two days, I’ve had the opportunity to write to two of the leading newspapers. I was pleasantly surprised with the results. I emailed Scott McCartney … Continue reading
Posted in media, newspapers
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