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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- “Value conviction over consensus” seems to be a common theme among @tfadell and @scottbelsky. Focusing on consensus… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 4 hours ago
- Conversation tonight on feature requirements for robo taxis. My suggestion: “I need to puke button.” Could just b… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 5 hours ago
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- Facebook PR must be breathing big sighs of relief these days with Musk/Twitter fight sucking up all of the bot/misinformation discussion. 14 hours ago
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Recent Posts
- A finance guide for millionaires and billionaires
- Rakesh’s travel secrets for your holiday travel
- Lobsterclass – free classes on product management
- Getting down to numbers: quantitative research
- Pricing the COVID-19 vaccine
- Favorite things, day 1: podcasts
- Rakesh’s travel secrets for your holiday travels
- Favorite things, day 2: credit cards
- Favorite things, day 3: Hawaii
- TiVo remains king of TV
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Category Archives: photography
Using photos to show the story
A common refrain in journalism schools is “show don’t tell.” It means to make your writing sufficiently descriptive that readers can visualize what you’re talking about. Instead of writing that the “laptop looked old,” you should write “The laptop bore … Continue reading
Posted in flickr, journalism, media, newspapers, photography
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Flickr and privacy rights
Flickr is one of the treasures of the Web. You can find high quality images on just about every topic imaginable. It’s great for sharing with friends, planning vacations and illustrating blog posts. It also raises a lot of issues … Continue reading
Posted in flickr, intellectual property, photography, privacy, street view
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Back from vacation
Two of my favorite pictures: See the complete album on flickr, including the Wright Brothers National Memorial and the North American Sandsculpting Championship in Virginia Beach. Of course, there’s a map.
Posted in fun, photography, rocky's travel
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Editing photos, as easy as pie at Picnik
Picnik is part of a new class of Web-based photo editing tools that’s making sprucing up photos easy and fun. Picnik does a lot of the things that desktop photo editors do, but with a lot less work. The basics … Continue reading
Posted in facebook, flickr, photography, web 2, web 2.0
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Mooving beyond the boring business card
After leaving AOL, I decided to get some personal cards printed. Instead of going the conventional route, I went with Moo. It’s a great little company out of the UK that lets you print cards with full-color pictures on the … Continue reading
Posted in flickr, fun, photography
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Flickr vs. The Washington Post
There was a big bike race outside my door yesterday. Thousands of people showed up to watch pro cyclists from around the world in the 100km CSC Invitational. What’s the best source to find out about what happened yesterday? Oddly, … Continue reading
Posted in flickr, geotagging, google, journalism, media, newspapers, photography, web 2, web 2.0, yahoo, YouTube
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The perfect camera?
One of the examples I frequently use when talking about search engine results and personalization is the query “digital camera”. There is no “right” answer for this query. The right answer depends as much on the needs of the person … Continue reading
Posted in consumer electronics, photography
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