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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- Focus is on miles here, but you can apply this to most industries. Short term vs. long term thinking, loyalty vs. t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 hour ago
- People in tech vastly underestimate the importance of luck in their successes and failures. twitter.com/josephflaherty… 3 hours ago
- RT @pkedrosky: It's good to be the casino: FT: Goldman Sachs will make $80mn from advising Twitter and JPMorgan will make $53mn, accordin… 3 hours ago
- 😂 twitter.com/IvanTheK/statu… 1 day ago
- And more likely than not, you screw your employees. twitter.com/bgurley/status… 1 day ago
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Category Archives: bing
Geo-enabled Twitter comes alive on Twitter Maps
I’ve been playing with Bing’s Twitter Maps lately and it’s one of the better implementations of Twitter’s geo APIs that were introduced last fall. It shows tweets within the last 7 days plotted on the map. Google Maps recently introduced a … Continue reading
Posted in bing, geotagging, lbs, local search, maps, mobile, social networking, twitter
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Past, present and future of online maps
Google announced yesterday that it has added more detail on its maps, highlighting businesses and landmarks. They even solved the Albert Einstein Memorial problem that I wrote about last year. Businesses and landmarks are important because they make maps more … Continue reading
Posted in bing, google, local search, maps, microsoft
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Bing, Yahoo! try to capitalize on Google’s Michael Jackson traffic surge
Seen over the weekend: ads for bing and Yahoo! on Google search results for “Michael Jackson”. The bing ad led to bing’s xRank page for Michael Jackson. The Yahoo! ad bizarrely led to a Yahoo! shopping results page for Michael … Continue reading