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
- 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
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- Groupon investors race for the exits as lockup ends
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- How do you pay for a ride on SF Muni with a $20 and a $1?
- A sample Groupon merchant agreement
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Category Archives: advertising
Marketing on social networks
Social networks like MySpace and Facebook are among the leaders in user engagement, with many users returning daily and some visiting many times a day. They’ve almost reached the same level of engagement as email* and have double the engagement … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, facebook, marketing, social networking, web 2, web 2.0
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Barack Obama seeks answers on LinkedIn
Barack Obama has joined LinkedIn, asking the LinkedIn community about what the next president can do to help small business. Back in January, Hillary Clinton asked Yahoo! Answers users about ways to improve health care. Obama’s LinkedIn profile outlines his … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, elections, social networking
Brazen highway robbery in Nebraska
You see a sign advertising gas at $3.09 a gallon. You pull in and fill up. After filling up, you realize that you were charged $3.59 a gallon for the same grade of gas. Bait and switch? Sounds like it. … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, fun, random
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Google’s $4.55 bag of cookies
Vending machine priced by grams of fat, Google, San Jose, California.jpg, originally uploaded by gruntzooki. I was visiting my friend Adam at Google yesterday and he pointed out a vending machine in Google’s Building 43. A vending machine on the … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, fun, google, random
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Measuring Web traffic, let me count the ways
Mark Glaser at MediaShift has a great two-part series on measuring Web traffic. It’s well worth reading for publishers, advertisers and anyone else who cares about how traffic is measured. There are a number of different ways firms measure traffic: … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, media, publishing, statistics
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Pepsi to clarify that Aquafina is tap water
PepsiCo is planning to clarify labels to tell consumers that its Aquafina water is actually bottled from public water supplies. According to the CNN story, the labels will be changed from “Bottled at the source P.W.S.” to “The Aquafina in … Continue reading
Posted in advertising
e-Vic – Personalization that works
I’ve seen many tries at personalization in the last decade. Most don’t work very well. Among the best personalization systems are Netflix’s and Amazon’s recommendations engines. There’s another to add to the list, and it comes from an unlikely source: … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, personalization
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