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.
Miker on Twitter- miker: I'm pretty sure time compresses between midnight and 3am.
- miker: @fusion94 Hey. Just cause you get to live a life of leisure in your costal geek cave, there's no reason to rub it in. // @aswong76
- miker: @matthewgonzales I have a dinner tomorrow night, but I'll try to swing by #SFNT afterward. Hope to catch you!
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- miker: Yo RIM: Where’s your sense of urgency? http://t.co/mZYevZIs (Oh, so doomed)
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Category Archives: Technology
webOS Open Source
I wasn’t planning to weigh in on HP deciding to open up webOS, cause like I’ve said before tectonic shifts with little short-term impact aren’t really that important to startups. However, I’ve been doing open source stuff for a whole … Continue reading
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What’s With the Recent QR Code Abuses?
I’m seeing a lot of QR codes spread around, popping up in TV commercials and in print advertisements. And in general they’re horrible campaigns. My favorite are the commercials that flash a QR code on the screen for a few … Continue reading
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What’s Working and What Needs Work
We had a great discussion in the morning at Appnation, big thanks to the panel for participating and Drew and company for making it happen. The point of the panel was to try to distill a few concrete principles and … Continue reading
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Why I’m Crossing NFC Off My List
I’ve got a list of stuff I would like to read up on and play with, and NFC has been on that list for a while. I’ve been really excited about the secondary stuff that should go along with NFC. … Continue reading
Posted in Android, Technology, ThisIsMobility
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JSON Bookmark Sync for Android
I’ve been playing around with a few different ideas lately, many of which include some statement such as “it would be interesting, but it really needs to interact with the default browser otherwise it would be really clunky.” So last … Continue reading
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Development of the Mobile Web
What is it going to take for us to see some real significant progress being made in developing mobile apps on the web? Since the Day of JS event a few days ago I’ve been poking at the idea. I … Continue reading
Posted in AdMob, Browser, Business, Community, iPhone, Software, Technology, ThisIsMobility
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Day of JS Event
The Day of JS event yesterday was fantastic! Thanks to Google and the MJG crew for putting it together and hosting. Great set of presentations and discussion, and I was blown away by the set of folks in the audience. … Continue reading
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Fetching Gmail Messages by Label on Android
Android has a nice setup for programmatically accessing data across applications called ContentProviders. There’s a content provider that you can use to read the email that Gmail has cached, but I was having a hard time finding an example of … Continue reading
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How I Learned to go Paperless and Love the iPad
I hate paper. It served a good purpose for a long time. But now we’re stuck with the legacy despite having better ways to do things. And nothing annoys me more than the print, sign, fax/scan cycle. Recently I’ve had … Continue reading
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Meta-(Carrier/Operator) Services
Great writeup by the Vision Mobile folks about bringing the ‘social’ out of the operator walled gardens. I agree that there needs to be some cross-operator API that operates at a different level. Lets hope the WAC and the OneAPI … Continue reading
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