Mike Rowehl
I've been working in mobile for a long time, and on internet service scalability even longer. I'm founder and CTO at Metaresolver, Inc, a tech platform for performance media buying in mobile. I have a personal blog at rowehl.com.
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Monthly Archives: February 2008
Microb Spellcheck Extension
Some of the comments to my previous posts about Firefox mobile pointed me toward the packaged extensions to the Microb browser, which is the default browser on the N810. One of the extensions is a spellcheck extension that underlines misspelled … Continue reading
Posted in Maemo, Open Source, ThisIsMobility
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Random Mobile Web Stuff
Riding Caltrain home earlier I had a hankering for some new fiction, so I thought “this would be a perfect chance to poke at the Amazon mobile site and get Singularity Sky.” Geeky huh? I have to say I don’t … Continue reading
Posted in ThisIsMobility
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The Effects of Unbundling Mobile Distribution
Sounds like there’s some interesting discussion going on at GDC. I liked the summary from MocoNews about the end of carrier control in gaming. It’s an excellent example of one of the positive benefits that comes out of having the … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Mowser, ThisIsMobility
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Linux Router
I have a problem with wifi routers. I don’t know why it is, maybe I abuse them too much. But I’ve gone through a few routers over the last year. At AdMob we had the same kinds of problems, wifi … Continue reading
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Poking Around in the Minefield
After getting an initial version of mobile Firefox (currently called minefield) compiled and running on the Maemo SDK, I compiled a version for ARM and put it on my n810: It’s definitely a very early effort, like all of the … Continue reading
Posted in Browser, Maemo, Open Source, Software, ThisIsMobility
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Walk Through Minefields
I got networking going in my scratchbox install and was able to build my own minefield 1.9 Mozilla and get it talking to the intarwebs: Pimp, I know, you’re jealous. Turns out Brad is way more pimp, and actually had … Continue reading
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Why I Don’t Care About LiMo
There’s a whole bunch of noise about the LiMo Foundation and comparisons to the Google Android project and the Open Handset Alliance. That’s cool, I’m happy there are people taking a look at both and poking around and trying to … Continue reading
Posted in Open Source, Software, ThisIsMobility
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BarCamp Bank SF – Mobile Payments?
I just signed up for the BarCamp Bank event in Berkeley next month. Not my normal venue, but I would really like to get a conversation going around mobile payments. In short, they don’t work. There’s point solutions here and … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Technology, ThisIsMobility
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The Taste of Progress
Apparently the technology now exists to tell good espresso from bad, so I have some subjective measure to go on when I complain about these kinds of things. I don’t want it built into the coffee machine though, I want … Continue reading
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Mobile Search, Blended Indexes, Content Ranking
I’ve been wondering a lot lately about search indexes and mobile content, and the reinforcing effect an established web index can have on the growth of any new channels. I’ve been paying particular attention since Google changed to a unified … Continue reading
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