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.
On Twitter
- I’ve seen more wildlife half a day at a national park in Botswana than all of my trips to US national parks combine… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 3 hours ago
- https://t.co/8VYXPLSiOc 3 hours ago
- Is there anything interesting to do on a 5 hour late afternoon / early evening layover at JNB? 3 hours ago
- Last full day in Africa. I will definitely be back. Have to pair it with a trip to Asia, though. Straight from SF, it was 25 hours one way. 11 hours ago
- I’m going to disagree with my good friend brian here. Voice is a component but will not be dominant. (As evidenced… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 11 hours ago
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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
Top Posts
- Google Maps: extreme close up with Street View
- A sample Groupon merchant agreement
- Packaged pani puri as progress
- The experience is the product
- A look at Groupon's extremely lopsided merchant agreement
- The terrible numbers that Groupon doesn't want you to focus on
- Think Groupon is a technology company? Think again.
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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
