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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- RT @TerriGerstein: This op-ed by @Uber CEO completely misstates the law. Our current employment system does *not* require workers to choo… 3 hours ago
- Question: Why does Twitter have such a hard time keeping track of where you are in your feed? On iPad, I click off… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 3 hours ago
- The undoubtedly won’t be as nice as the public bathrooms @bryantparknyc, but definitely a necessity in SF. For New… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 3 hours ago
- During the primaries, I was talking about how much worse income inequality would become. COVID jumped us forward in… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 3 hours ago
- RT @daphnehk: People who say "Facebook should be infrastructure/a common carrier/etc." have not thought the issue through. Or they have, an… 7 hours ago
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- 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
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Monthly Archives: March 2009
15 people I’d want to have dinner with
Sir Richard Branson, chairman of Virgin Group – He’s my kind of billionaire: irreverent, playful and working for the public good. Steve Case, co-founder of AOL – No one person did more to bring Americans online than Steve. I was … Continue reading
Posted in random
Facebook drives 6MM people to Friendster!
That headline is kinda, sorta true. If you buy shoddy analysis from misinterpreted data. Like a recent piece from Henry Blodget, mass inflator of the Web 1.0 bubble. He is at it again with a piece on Facebook being a … Continue reading
Posted in facebook, google, search, social networking, statistics
1 Comment
More bad news for newspapers: hotels going green
This picture should send shivers down the spines of executives at USA Today headquarters in McLean, Va. For at least as long as I’ve been traveling for business (13 years and counting), a USA Today in front of the hotel … Continue reading
Posted in hotels, journalism, media, newspapers, travel
3 Comments
Who needs newspapers?
I read two thought-provoking pieces this week on the decline of newspapers from voices outside the newspaper business and one Really Dumb Idea from a voice on the inside. Author Clay Shirky, Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable: When someone demands … Continue reading
Posted in journalism, media, newspapers, web 2, web 2.0
5 Comments
Realtime Twitter search is not a Google killer, part 2
In the first part, I wrote about the fallacy of using people with thousands of followers to illustrate how you can get great results if you ask questions on Twitter. In this part, I’ll focus on why the conversational nature … Continue reading
Realtime Twitter search is not a Google killer
There’s been a lot of hype lately about “realtime search” using Twitter being a Google Killer. John Battelle talked about it in searchblog. Mike Arrington talked about it in TechCrunch. There are two scenarios that have been talked about with … Continue reading
Posted in google, search, seo, social networking, twitter
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The hospitality industry gets more inhospitable
For an industry that markets itself as catering to the whims of its guests, the hotel industry sure goes out of its way to make a bad final impression. I just had a wonderful stay at the Westin Resort & … Continue reading
