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
- What is the biggest miss by the sharks on @ABCSharkTank? (A deal they passed on which blew up after.) Anything bigg… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 10 hours ago
- Trying to figure out who the biggest asshole in trump cabinet is. Pompeo, Barr, devos. It could be recency bias, but man azar is an asshole. 12 hours ago
- RT @JJHensleyauthor: Shout out to all the domestic terrorists being arrested because they had their cell phones on them while attacking the… 18 hours ago
- This is what a real lockdown looks like. Stay safe, my DC/MD/VA friends. (The hearts are some of my favorite places… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 19 hours ago
- Nixon’s ghost *really* doesn’t want that comparison. cnn.com/2021/01/14/pol… 19 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
- A sample Groupon merchant agreement
- Searching vs. browsing
- Because manholes are round
- Facebook drives 6MM people to Friendster!
- How daily deal companies could improve the merchant experience -- and why they won't
- A look at Groupon's extremely lopsided merchant agreement
- Favorite things, day 6: First Republic
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Daily Archives: May 2, 2007
Fighting spam with picture e-mail ID
It’s time to turn the daily fight with spam on its head. Mail services should try to identify the mail I should pay attention to, instead of trying to just identify the junk. One way to do this is to … Continue reading
Posted in aol, email, google, spam
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The problems with experts
As I wrote earlier, I participated in an ExperTease game sponsored by search engine Ask at the Web 2.0 Expo. The game was a clever of way conveying an idea that Ask has up its sleeve: returning “expert” search results. … Continue reading
Posted in search
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