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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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- The biggest winners in blowing up traditional TV model is people who don’t care about sports. They’ve been providin… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 3 hours ago
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- Ranked Choice Marriage. (This market scenario is different from markets with dowries.) npr.org/2021/03/02/972… 9 hours ago
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- I haven’t SEEN the results, but doing this without analyzing associated metadata is quite the feat. venturebeat.com/2021/03/04/fac… 12 hours ago
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Category Archives: statistics
Facebook drives 6MM people to Friendster!
That headline is kinda, sorta true. If you buy shoddy analysis from misinterpreted data. Like a recent piece from Henry Blodget, mass inflator of the Web 1.0 bubble. He is at it again with a piece on Facebook being a … Continue reading
Posted in facebook, google, search, social networking, statistics
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Cutting the cord on the home phone
The Times reports today that the percentage of homes with cell phones and no landline now exceeds the percentage of homes that have a landline and no cell phones. It’s been about four years since I paid a landline phone … Continue reading
Posted in statistics, wireless
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comScore redefines search, Google wins bigger
ComScore is changing the methodology for its qSearch market share ratings. Instead of just counting search activity at the major search engines, comScore is expanding the definition of search to include searches at sites such as Wikipedia, eBay, Amazon, MySpace, … Continue reading
Posted in aol, facebook, google, metrics, search, statistics, yahoo
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Mmmm…. McCarrots and McMilk
The AP reports on a study of 63 poor children that found the kids preferred food in McDonald’s wrappers over identical unmarked food. The golden arches cast a golden halo over even healthy items such as carrots and milk. The … Continue reading
Posted in random, statistics
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Measuring Web traffic, let me count the ways
Mark Glaser at MediaShift has a great two-part series on measuring Web traffic. It’s well worth reading for publishers, advertisers and anyone else who cares about how traffic is measured. There are a number of different ways firms measure traffic: … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, media, publishing, statistics
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Measuring the Facebook traffic tsunami
Upstart traffic measurement company Quantcast has released some impressive data on the effect of the Facebook platform on audience growth. The company measured pre- and post-Facebook platform usage on three popular companies: Slide, HOTorNOT and RockYou. All three have seen … Continue reading
Posted in facebook, statistics
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AOL is #1
In my piece on Nielsen’s shift to time-on-site metrics, I mentioned the downsides of using a single metric. ZDNet has a follow on to the Nielsen story that explores this further. The shift in methodology puts AOL at the top … Continue reading
Posted in statistics
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Nielsen tears up page view metrics
Hallelujah! From the AP story on Nielsen’s move: A leading online measurement service will scrap rankings based on the longtime industry yardstick of page views and begin tracking how long visitors spend at the sites. The move by Nielsen/NetRatings, expected … Continue reading
Hard numbers on reader participation
With as much attention as user voting models (such as Digg), email to a friend links, etc., are getting, I’ve wondered what the ratio of passive vs. active consumers is. Having been in the business for 12 years, I know … Continue reading
Posted in newspapers, statistics, web 2, web 2.0
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Fun with metrics
With AJAX, streaming video and other technologies making page views a less and less meaningful metric for Web businesses, Jeremy Zawodny asks what is the best metric for Web 2.0?There is no single metric that works across all sites. Of … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, statistics, web 2, web 2.0
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