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: April 2008
Mobile Analytics from AdMob
The news is starting to make it out about the analytics product AdMob has in beta. Like mentioned before, analytics on mobile is one of those things it’s easy to do poorly and very difficult to do well. Even the … Continue reading
Posted in AdMob, Community, ThisIsMobility
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Mozilla @ Web 2.0
Very happy to see Mozilla talking about mobile browsing at Web 2.0 Expo. W00t! Progress is being made, makes me all tingly happy.
Posted in Browser, Open Source, ThisIsMobility
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The Advertising Big Picture
I’m getting a bunch of pings from all sorts of advertising folks (probably because I’ve worked in the past at places like Overture and AdMob, worked in mobile for a while, and my current company is in the process of … Continue reading
Posted in Community, ThisIsMobility
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Maemo Screen Rotation
I was fooling around a bit with the screen rotation support for Maemo this morning on my N800 (didn’t want to risk mucking with the N810 yet). I would put up some screenshots, but for some reason the screenshot applet … Continue reading
Posted in Maemo, Open Source
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Unintended Consequences
Russ and I have worked on stuff together in the past. One of the interesting side effects of online celebrity (or whatever you want to call it that Russ has, blog popularity, name recognition – the term itself isn’t important) … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Mowser
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LinkedIn Unusably Slow
I used LinkedIn to try to help organize all the folks I run into at events and conferences, but recently Plaxo has really won me over. I love the ability to sync to local applications and manage my calendar, which … Continue reading
Posted in ThisIsMobility
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What Happened to Independent Thought?
The reaction to Russ’s post about shutting down Mowser and his thoughts on the mobile web have me in a bit of a tizzy. Russ is a good friend, and I understand where his thoughts are coming from, so I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Mowser, ThisIsMobility
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Mowser Firesale – Everything Must Go!
Russ posted already that we’re shutting down Mowser. I was chatting with him earlier, and we’re looking to sell what we have already rather than just toss it all. I still think it’s a great service that could fulfill a … Continue reading
Posted in Mowser, Technology, ThisIsMobility
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N810 Geoweb Launcher
I was mulling some of the geo hacks for the N810 that are out there now. Maemo Mapper is a great open source mapping application, there’s a little app that geocodes photos as well. Then there’s Maemo WordPy for posting … Continue reading
Posted in Browser, Community, Maemo, Open Source, ThisIsMobility
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Bunch of Random Updates
A few things I want to get down as much so that I know where to find them next time I’m looking them as anything else. Installing Ubuntu using the version of Parallels I have a license for is a … Continue reading
Posted in ThisIsMobility
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