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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.
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Monthly Archives: January 2007
On vacation
I’m on vacation next week and in Dublin the following week.
Posted in rocky's travel
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Hillary Clinton asks Yahoo! for answers
Last week, we saw the media splash that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama made by announcing their candidacies on their Web sites. This week, the Clinton camp asked Yahoo! Answers users “Based on your own family’s experience, what do you … Continue reading
Posted in search, social networking, yahoo
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Custom pictures come to credit cards
You can do a lot of things with your pictures these days – turn them into notecards, magnets, calendars, mugs, puzzles, stamps, T-shirts. With all the gimmicks credit card companies use to try to get you to pick their plastic … Continue reading
Posted in personal finance
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Fare Guard – a (bad) option on low airfares
Farecast is one of my favorite sites for checking out airfares. It’s a data junkie’s dream – Farecast does for airfares what Zillow does for real estate data. You can slice and dice airfare data in a number of different … Continue reading
Posted in airlines, personal finance, travel
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Gmail and the geek set
I’ve noticed lately how many of my friends and colleagues have adopted Gmail addresses. Although Gmail is still a very distant 4th place (after Yahoo!, MSN and AOL) when it comes to the broad Internet audience, it seems to have … Continue reading
World Explorer: A new way to look at the world
The folks at Yahoo! Research have used flickr’s APIs to create a new way to look at the world. The TagMaps take tags from flickr and plot them on Yahoo! maps. The current implementation is slow and the display of … Continue reading
Posted in city guides, flickr, geotagging, gps, local search, maps, travel
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Post on privacy
The Post’s Ellen Nakashima follows a real estate agent around for a day pointing out all of the times when she’s being tracked – whether it’s by a security camera, email server, electronic toll collector or search engine. (There’s no … Continue reading
Netflix movies without the red envelope
Netflix is beginning to experiment with streaming movies and TV shows on demand to PCs. Customers will soon be able to watch movies and TV shows like “The Office” without having to wait for the red envelope to show up … Continue reading
Yahoo! Search knows what you mean
I was looking through the referrer data for this blog and noticed an entry from Yahoo search for “redisgn my screen on yahoo”. I tried the search to see why the blog would come up – it looks like Yahoo! … Continue reading
Using the Web to shame
The WSJ has a fun story (subscription required) about using the Web to shame people who do bad things like cut you off in traffic, park in handicapped spots and talk too loudly on cell phones. The digital age allows … Continue reading
Posted in flickr, web 2.0, YouTube
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