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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- What is the biggest miss by the sharks on @ABCSharkTank? (A deal they passed on which blew up after.) Anything bigg… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 9 hours ago
- Trying to figure out who the biggest asshole in trump cabinet is. Pompeo, Barr, devos. It could be recency bias, but man azar is an asshole. 11 hours ago
- RT @JJHensleyauthor: Shout out to all the domestic terrorists being arrested because they had their cell phones on them while attacking the… 18 hours ago
- This is what a real lockdown looks like. Stay safe, my DC/MD/VA friends. (The hearts are some of my favorite places… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 18 hours ago
- Nixon’s ghost *really* doesn’t want that comparison. cnn.com/2021/01/14/pol… 18 hours ago
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- 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
- Favorite things, day 4: TiVo
- Favorite things, day 5: Alaska Airlines
- Favorite things, day 6: First Republic
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Category Archives: spam
Facing Facebook spam
One of the things I love about Facebook is that I don’t get any spam through the system. Sure, I get some friend requests from people I don’t really know and periodically get asked if I want to become a … Continue reading
The dumbest application you can’t live without
Email. I use it everyday and I mostly hate it. We’re stuck with a system that was designed decades ago in the kumbaya days of the Internet when most people who were connected to the Internet meant well and getting … Continue reading
Posted in email, spam
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Fighting spam with picture e-mail ID
It’s time to turn the daily fight with spam on its head. Mail services should try to identify the mail I should pay attention to, instead of trying to just identify the junk. One way to do this is to … Continue reading
Posted in aol, email, google, spam
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1309 spam messages in 90 minutes
I got an unpleasant surprise today – an avalanche of spam in 90 minutes. And technically, I was the one sending it. Or at least that’s what the mailservers thought. Our current email system was created in a time when … Continue reading
Please don’t send to a friend
One of the key ways I get around the spam scourge is to use a separate email address for close friends, family and important business contacts. I don’t use this address for anything else. As a result, the people closest … Continue reading
Spams, scams and search
During the last two weeks, I spent much of my time in focus groups on search. While I can’t talk about the concepts we were testing, one thing that struck me was the degree to which people viewed all of … Continue reading
Show me the good stuff
When I check my email, I scan the list of new messages for names of people I know. This is something that machines can do much faster and better. With the volume of spam and bulk mail these days, some … Continue reading
Posted in email, spam, web 2.0
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