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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Category Archives: city guides
Yahoo! Local gets Yelpy
Yahoo! Local has rolled out some new features to increase the Web 2.0-ness of its local search product: RSS feeds. You can subscribe to feeds of all reviews near you. If you find a reviewer you like, you can stay … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, city guides, local search, search, web 2, web 2.0, yahoo, yelp
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Let Google Maps do the walking
Matt Cutts points out a great mashup for apartment hunters: Walk Score. One of the most important criteria I have when looking for a place to live is whether I can walk to (or stumble back from) places. Walk Score … Continue reading
Posted in city guides, google, local search, maps, mashups
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Google Maps launches local reviews
In a potentially huge blow to local services like Yelp, CitySearch, and AOLCityGuide, Google is now offering users the ability to leave reviews for businesses they search on. To date, Google has aggregated reviews from those sites and others in … Continue reading
Posted in city guides, google, local search, maps, web 2, web 2.0, yelp
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Outside.in puts neighborhood news on the map
Brady at O’Reilly Radar has a great post on Outside.in. The startup aggregates local blogs, organizes them by neighborhood and plots them on a map. I’ve written before about the importance of being hyperlocal. If I were running a media … Continue reading
Posted in city guides, geotagging, journalism, local search, maps, media, newspapers, web 2, web 2.0
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AOL launches local beta
AOL Local has a beta of a new map-based search product. It’s a solid first effort, and one that is competitive with offerings from Google, Yahoo! and Yelp. AOL Local plays up AOL’s primary differentiator over the competition: exclusive content … Continue reading
Posted in aol, city guides, google, local search, maps, yahoo, yellow pages
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World Explorer: A new way to look at the world
The folks at Yahoo! Research have used flickr’s APIs to create a new way to look at the world. The TagMaps take tags from flickr and plot them on Yahoo! maps. The current implementation is slow and the display of … Continue reading
Posted in city guides, flickr, geotagging, gps, local search, maps, travel
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Following local search to nowhere
One of the big frustrations I have with local search is that the data is often old. With many sites, the information can be 18 months old. More than once I’ve driven to businesses that were no longer in business. … Continue reading
Posted in city guides, google, local search, web 2.0, yellow pages
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