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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Monthly Archives: April 2009
How the AP blew it
In the most recent round of AP getting in a huff about search engines and aggregators stealing traffic that they feel rightly belongs to them, there’s a fundamental problem they’re ignoring: AP chose not be in the online news business. … Continue reading
Posted in google, iphone, journalism, media, newspapers, yahoo
9 Comments
9 ways to improve the Facebook news feed
As any designer knows, making a big change to a site with as many users as Facebook has is going to cause a lot of complaining. With that in mind, I’ve tried to get used to the new feed over … Continue reading
Posted in facebook, search, social networking
3 Comments
Anyone can be a journalist
In conversations with people in the news business, I regularly hear about the need for “professional journalists.” Ask them what makes a professional journalist and the answers get wishy-washy. Is it someone who is on staff at a newspaper? What … Continue reading
Posted in facebook, flickr, journalism, media, mobile, newspapers, publishing, social networking, twitter
7 Comments
Newspaper companies can’t unring the bell
American newspapers are in trouble. So far this year, the Rocky Mountain News and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer have shuttered their presses. Tribune is in bankruptcy. My first employer, the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, is also there. Publishers have threatened to … Continue reading
Posted in journalism, media, newspapers, publishing, twitter, web 2, web 2.0
3 Comments