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.
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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 10, 2007
The troubles with online newspapers
Mike Markson of Topix has a Top 10 list of the troubles facing their online counterparts. I’ve written about a few of these in the past: disintermediation by syndicators and advertisers. I agree with most of Mike’s points, especially the … Continue reading
Posted in journalism, newspapers, publishing
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Twitter without the SMS bill hangover
Twitter has released a mobile version of its Web site at http://m.twitter.com. Instead of sending and receiving SMS messages each time you or a friend posts a status update, you can just do it on the Twitter mobile site. Any … Continue reading
Posted in twitter, wireless, wireless data
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The dumbest application you can’t live without
Email. I use it everyday and I mostly hate it. We’re stuck with a system that was designed decades ago in the kumbaya days of the Internet when most people who were connected to the Internet meant well and getting … Continue reading
Posted in email, spam
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AOL launches new search product
AOL launched a new version of AOL Search today. Disclosure: I work at AOL Search. (But not on this product.)
Posted in aol, google, search
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