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
- An illustrated guide to chaat, Indian snack food. It's more than just samosas. The guide is universally useful but… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 15 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: yahoo
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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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
Maps on maps on Yahoo! Travel
One of the things on my map wishlist (and the to blog about list) for a long time has been finding maps on the map. Say what? There are many venues that are gigantic. Think the Smithsonian’s Udvar-Hazy Center, Giants … Continue reading
Posted in local search, maps, travel, yahoo
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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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Yahoo! markets oneSearch in TV ads
Caught this commercial for Yahoo!’s oneSearch today. The ad features hikers who stumble across flora including the ficticious “crimson maneater”. It’s mildly amusing, but fails to sell mobile search. The query term used is “flowers in oregon”. They should put … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, mobile, mobile search, wireless, yahoo
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Yahoo’s new, improved maps
I was geotagging some pictures on Flickr and noticed that Yahoo! Maps has dramatically improved. Things that jumped out at me: Improved legibility. High contrast and easy to read. Subway/mass transit stations. They are the small blue circles you see … Continue reading
Posted in google, maps, transit, yahoo
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Attack of the wireless patent trolls
I did a vanity search last night on the patent office’s published application database looking for some patents I’ve submitted. I came across a lot of patents submitted by Strategic Patents, P.C. The name itself screams patent troll. Trolls are … Continue reading
Posted in aol, google, intellectual property, yahoo
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Snow on the cherry blossoms
We got a rare April snow today, leaving a dusting on the cherry blossoms for the National Cherry Blossom Festival. See all my pictures from around the Tidal Basin. Zoom in three levels for optimal effect. Boo to Canon for … Continue reading
Watching time go by, flickr style
A terrific presentation from Andrew Tomkins of Yahoo! Research at ICWSM today. He mentioned Yahoo’s Taglines – another way of visualizing flickr data. Flickr photos and the top tags for each day float by. (It gets better if you start … Continue reading