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
- A380 only made sense for small city-states like Dubai, Singapore, Abu Dhabi. Basically it was a connector aircraft… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 hour ago
- RT @British_Airways: @rakeshlobster @AlaskaAir Hi Rakesh, that must have been a reward for making you use a different pen. We hope you had… 1 hour ago
- Score. @British_Airways offered a last minute upgrade to first for $859. How can you not take that? @AlaskaAir… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 hour ago
- Off brand! You shouldn’t have me sign a @British_Airways upgrade form with an ANA pen. Not even the same alliance.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 hour ago
- Spouse leaves Ethiopia for Victoria falls just after I leave SFO for LHR. Gets there much earlier, of course. … twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 hour ago
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Recent Posts
- Favorite hotels from around the world
- Let’s not call Goldman Sachs evil (yet, and for this potential infraction)
- 5 things Andrew Yang must do for the next debate
- My personal environmental footprint
- FAANG + Microsoft market matrix
- Thoughts on this week’s suicides and how you can help
- Autonomous vehicles are going to affect a lot of jobs
- How technology chips away at jobs
- How to turn on the innovation light bulb
- Autonomous vehicles are going to change the world in more ways than you know
Top Posts
- The experience is the product
- About Rakesh Agrawal
- Favorite hotels from around the world
- About
- Fly me to the trough
- Groupon investors race for the exits as lockup ends
- My technology adoption history
- How do you pay for a ride on SF Muni with a $20 and a $1?
- A sample Groupon merchant agreement
- Groupon resource page
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Monthly Archives: November 2007
Technology in pop culture and geek trivia
In the last week or so, I’ve seen a few of our favorite geek topics appear in pop culture. Twitter provided key clues in CSI. The Simpsons finally got Tivo. Doonesbury featured Pandora. Tuesday’s Jeopardy! had as the Final Jeopardy! … Continue reading
Lake Tahoe and Reno pictures on flickr
Pictures from my trip to Lake Tahoe and Reno are online. Highlights of the trip were Emerald Bay, Virginia City and the National Automobile Museum in Reno. The museum is really the only thing in Reno I found worthwhile. Here … Continue reading
Posted in rocky's travel
Flickr places provides a wide-angle view of the world
My friends who’ve seen me walk around with a GPS as I take pictures on vacation or hikes think I’m a little bit odd. But apparently, I’m not the only one. In the 15 months since Flickr officially supported geotagging, … Continue reading
Google’s My Maps becomes Our Maps
Google’s latest changes to My Maps allows you to collaborate on personal maps with others in much the same way you can share a Google Document or Spreadsheet. You can also allow anyone to edit a map. Group editing is … Continue reading
Searching outside the search box
A large untapped opportunity in social networks is connecting people with information they’re looking for. I was flying home this weekend from Lake Tahoe and connected in Salt Lake City. While I was there, I updated my Facebook status to … Continue reading
Posted in facebook, search, social networking, web 2, web 2.0
Ethernet everywhere
Yup, that’s an Ethernet jack above the urinal. I saw this at my friend Kieran’s pub, The Local in Minneapolis. No, I didn’t try plugging in. Here’s what the jack is really used for.
Posted in advertising, fun, marketing, random