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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Category Archives: Open Source
Nokia, Symbian, Open Source
I don’t really have time to write anything proper, but I just wanted to weigh in quick on the whole Nokia-buying-Symbian-and-open-sourcing-it discussion. It’s stupid, Nokia should have gone with the Maemo platform as the future. Here’s why: Symbian is THE … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Open Source, 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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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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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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OS2008 Homescreen Hackery
Inspired by some screenshots that came through my feed reader the other day, I updated the firmware on my N810 and installed a few new bits of hackery: Those are transparent homescreen apps, and more important than looking slick (if … Continue reading
Posted in Maemo, Open Source, ThisIsMobility
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Mobile Payments Discussion Part 2 – FUD
The second part of a series of mobile payments posts I’m making to get ready for BarCampBankSF later on this month. The first part was a problem overview for the issues. This part is about the Fear Uncertainty and Doubt … Continue reading
Posted in Community, MobilePayments, Open Source, Technology, ThisIsMobility
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Inversion of Control
A few of the things I’ve been playing around with on the side lately have the common theme of inversion of control. Making one side of an interaction consume something that it normally emits or emits something that it normally … Continue reading
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Promoting your Mobile Version
I made a change to the Mowser WordPress plugin to add a sidebar widget to promote the mobile version from the desktop version. It’s just a little Mowser badge and a link to the mobile URL for the current page. … Continue reading
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Mobile Payments Discussion Part 1 – Problem Setup
There’s an event called BarCamp Bank coming up in Berkeley in a few weeks. I saw that a few people signed up for the event were already listed as interested in digital cash or mobile payment systems. I figure it’ll … Continue reading
Posted in Community, MobilePayments, Open Source, Technology, ThisIsMobility
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USB Host on the N810
Looking at the recent updates on maemo.org I noticed a utility for putting the USB controller into host mode. I had seen Kate’s post about modifying a standard cable or getting a USB On the Go cable to take advantage … Continue reading
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