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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: December 2007
Weekly Reader – Dec. 29, 2007 – TV, coffee, patents and Branson
This week’s interesting reads: Futurist: Digital TV’s Mixed Signals (CQ) – Congressional Quarterly takes a look at the impact of government action/inaction on the development and adoption of technology. As we near the Feb. 2009 date when analog broadcasting in … Continue reading
Posted in apple, customer service, environment, television, weekly reader
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Deep dish pizza near O’Hare – result found
Since I wrote earlier about the difficulties I had using search engines to find deep dish pizza, this blog has become the number one Google result for the query “deep dish pizza at O’Hare.” In the interest of serving my … Continue reading
Posted in random, travel
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Rocky’s travel secrets for your flights home
I’ve spent much of this year in airports and on airplanes. (Including 11 hours at O’Hare on Sunday for a fruitless trip.) Over the years, I’ve developed strategies for coping with the hassles of air travel. I hope you don’t … Continue reading
Posted in customer service, travel
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Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas to one and all and best wishes for a very happy new year. It’s been quite the interesting year at Casa Rocky. I’ve reaffirmed the power of friendship in a sometimes difficult year, spending time with and getting … Continue reading
Posted in personal, random, rocky's travel
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When you’re not important … and you know it
I’ve been waiting at O’Hare now for five hours now. I still have at least three hours to go, assuming United doesn’t cancel my flight. My scheduled 5:45 p.m. flight is showing an estimated departure time of 10:33 p.m. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in random, travel
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Weekly Reader – Dec. 22, 2007 – Usability, corrections, Wiimote whiteboard and geography
This week’s round up of interesting reads and views: Why Nobody Likes a Smart Machine (NYTimes) – A look at usability issues and the impact of product design on humans. It comes ahead of Christmas Day, when many people will … Continue reading
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Sign of the times
I went to the E-Trade site this morning and this is the first thing that greeted me: It’s a sign of the times. E-Trade has had more than its share of troubles lately. Suffering from the mortgage meltdown, it recently … Continue reading
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Bad user interface design at Dulles
If the city you’re going to begins with P-Z, move the giant stocking out of the way.
Posted in fun, random, rocky's travel, travel
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