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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- Getting down to numbers: quantitative research
- Pricing the COVID-19 vaccine
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- A sample Groupon merchant agreement
- You too can be Rand McNally
- The experience is the product
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- Measuring Web traffic, let me count the ways
- A look at Groupon's extremely lopsided merchant agreement
- LivingSocial merchant agreement
- What's wrong with journalism today, part 1
- Why Groupon is poised for collapse -- an update
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Category Archives: elections
Occasional reader – Pennies, GPS, bribing Congress, Nats opener
Some interesting stories from the last couple of weeks: Penny Dreadful (New Yorker) — Please, please let’s kill the penny already. It’s one of the nuisances of everyday life. Aside from Lincolnphiles and the companies that make money selling zinc … Continue reading
Posted in consumer electronics, elections, fun, gps, local search, mobile, mobile search, random, reader, weekly reader
Occasional reader – Jon Stewart, privacy and Fauxbama
Some interesting items from the last few weeks: Jon Stewart’s pre-Oscar interview on Larry King Live (CNN) – This interview is a perfect example of why people like me are watching The Daily Show for news. Stewart is sharper and … Continue reading
Posted in elections, journalism, media, privacy, reader, weekly reader
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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
Debate 2.0 a resounding success
Note: If you are reading this on the blog (instead of an RSS reader) you can roll over any of the links and watch the video right on this page. Last night’s CNN/YouTube debate was a triumph of public participation … Continue reading
Posted in elections, journalism, media, YouTube
YouTube reshaping the American political process
YouTube and CNN announced today debates with Democratic and Republican candidates for president. The debates will feature video questions uploaded to YouTube and will air on CNN this summer and fall. Audience questions have been featured in presidential debates before, … Continue reading
Election night’s big winner: the Internet
Election night is a perfect example of one of the best aspects of the Internet: instantaneous delivery of information to widely fragmented audiences. No waiting for the next day to get results from the newspaper. I didn’t even have to … Continue reading
Posted in elections, media, newspapers, publishing
