Mike Rowehl

I've been working in mobile for a long time, and on internet service scalability even longer. I'm currently working on Churn Labs with some friends, hacking on a bunch of interesting mobile projects. Drop me a line if you're interested.
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Monthly Archives: September 2007
Accelerating the Evolution of the Mobile Platform
Tom has a great post about lightweight apps and upgrades, do widget framework applications or runtime environments like FlashLite change the way folks could distribute content, “even if it duplicates some of the functionality of browsers”? My take on that … Continue reading
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FBReader on the N800
Russ has raved about FBReader, an ebook reader for Maemo, in the past. I had installed it before and tried it out, but had problems with the format of the books. He walked me through the stuff he was doing … Continue reading
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N800 Home Screen
I was fooling around with the layout of the home screen on my N800 last night: Awww, pretty. I found a bunch of great info in this post on TabletBlog.com and got some tips about statusbar management through Flickr comments … Continue reading
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Registration is Open for Mobile 2.0
We just opened the registration for the Mobile 2.0 2007 event. It’s a reprise to the event we did last year. Overall the event last year was a great gathering of the best and brightest in mobile, however there were … Continue reading
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September 2007 Silicon Valley MoMo
The September Silicon Valley Mobile Monday meeting is focused on mobile social networking. And the lineup for the event is just insanely fantastic. I’ll try not to break my arm patting myself on the back. But it’s going to be … Continue reading
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Scratchbox DNS Issue
Just playing around a bit with the Maemo SDK. I almost forgot about the DNS issue under Ubuntu (maybe others). You need to change the /scratchbox/etc/nsswitch.conf file in order to resolve hostnames from within scratchbox.
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Maemo at SV Linux Users Group
I just got a note from the folks at the Silicon Valley Linux Users Group saying that their meeting tomorrow is focused on Maemo. Excellent! I was just rereading the 3.x version of the Maemo developer tutorial this weekend in … Continue reading
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Palm Foleo Not Happening
I’m sure the chorus of “I totally called that months ago!!!” from the blogospere is going to be deafening on this one, but apparently Palm has decided that the Foleo product doesn’t make sense at this point. Apparently they still … Continue reading
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Miker v. Inbox, Episode x Thousand
The last few weeks I’ve been operating at less than full capacity. In particular, while I heal up I’ve had to sleep a lot more than I normally do. The result was just under three thousand messages in my email … Continue reading
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Trying Maemo WordPy on the N800
Just trying out a post from the Python based Maemo WordPy client. I was also fooling around with Minimo, but was having a bunch of issues with the UI. Fortunately it looks like the Maemo version of the Minimo source … Continue reading
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