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
- RT @tomasvanammers: Ten words and phrases that are bringing down your CV https://t.co/JzJfnqTzUs 2 hours ago
- RT @ca_dmv_bot: Customer: NICKNAME OF DISCEASED FRIEND DMV: HAMMER CAN BE A PENIS OR A GUN. ALSO NO HUMMER ON ANI Verdict: DENIED https://… 3 hours ago
- Enjoying this wonderful bit while it lasts. And the overall prudishness of DMV, where everything is sexual, hitle… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 3 hours ago
- RT @pt: First Twitter let spammers pay $8 to boost content, now it’s killing organic bots & moving to commercial bots only. It’s all just w… 3 hours ago
- Said in Ticketmaster testimony to congress: most of those fees go to the venues. Unsaid: Ticketmaster owns many of the venues. 5 hours ago
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Recent Posts
- A finance guide for millionaires and billionaires
- Rakesh’s travel secrets for your holiday travel
- 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
- TiVo remains king of TV
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Monthly Archives: March 2007
Twittering robots
One of the things that has impressed me about Twitter is the speed with which developers have adopted the API. There are more than 20 desktop applications and more than a dozen mashups listed on the Twitter Fan Wiki. The … Continue reading
Posted in newspapers, social networking, twitter, web 2, web 2.0, wireless
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Google’s revamped mobile site simplifies search
Google revamped its mobile search offering, simplifying the search process. Before, you had to enter a search term and then select which index they wanted to search: Web, mobile, local or images. Now you can type in a search term … Continue reading
Posted in google, local search, mobile, mobile search, wireless, wireless data
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Google SMS – a way out of voice recognition hell
Google is offering flight status information via SMS. Just send your flight number (e.g. UA 484) to GOOGLE (466453) and you get a return message with flight departure and arrival times, gate information and the airline’s phone number. (With most … Continue reading
Posted in airlines, google, mobile, travel, wireless, wireless data
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Watching time go by, flickr style
A terrific presentation from Andrew Tomkins of Yahoo! Research at ICWSM today. He mentioned Yahoo’s Taglines – another way of visualizing flickr data. Flickr photos and the top tags for each day float by. (It gets better if you start … Continue reading
Your car’s computer – friend or foe?
Today’s WSJ has a story that vividly illustrates the tradeoffs that technology can offer between privacy and security (subscription required). The story explores how the increased data that cars collect can be used: That data could be crucial to guiding … Continue reading
In Colorado for the next week
I’m in Vail over the weekend and then Boulder for the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media. If you’re around, message me.
Posted in rocky's travel
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Stupid Twitter GPS trick
Watch my progress from the cab, to Dulles airport, to the moon rover, to the plane, to Denver International Airport, to my rental car, to Vail Pass and finally sitting in my hotel room typing this. Done with Twitter GPS. … Continue reading
NewsCorpNBCYahooMSNMySpaceAOLTube vs. GooTube
NBC and News Corp announced a broad-reaching partnership this week that will feature shows from NBC and Fox on AOL, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo! — all the major Internet players except Google, the owner of YouTube. The major television networks … Continue reading
Because manholes are round
The elusive square manhole cover I found an interesting set of answers to interview questions. I found the answers first, and sadly, I knew what the questions were. If you haven’t seen the questions before, consider yourself lucky. Very early … Continue reading
Posted in recruiting
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Algorithms versus car dealers
My car dealer gave up on the battle. I got my car back from the dealer today and saw the sticker at right on my windshield. On my previous visits, they always put on a sticker telling me to come … Continue reading
Posted in cars, consumer electronics
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