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: Chrome for Android beta (ICS only it seems): http://t.co/LJkTq9Jn Looking pretty good so far!
- miker: RT @bryanrieger: Strategies for choosing test devices - http://t.co/YRHkEr7M by @stephanierieger
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- miker: Mobile Monday tonight in Palo Alto: http://t.co/Ypi3YDZC The business of mobile dating
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Category Archives: Technology
Zend Server CE 5.x and XDebug on OS X
I’ve taken to using Zend Server Community Edition for PHP work on OS X. Nice self-contained set of PHP, Apache, and Mysql. Most of the folks I work with don’t use editors or IDEs that support the Zend debugging extension … Continue reading
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Fixing Mobile Messaging
SMS is a fantastic service for person to person communication, but just about every other aspect of it is broken. Lately I’ve been paying a lot more attention to messaging because of the mobile web. It’s a current area of … Continue reading
Posted in Browser, Community, iPhone, Technology, ThisIsMobility
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Under the Radar 2010
I spent the day yesterday down at the Under the Radar conference in Mountain View. Awesome job once again by the organizers, who managed to pull together plenty of interesting companies I wasn’t yet familiar with and a great set … Continue reading
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Mozilla Open Web App Prototype
I think this prototype of an open web app system from the folks at Mozilla is quite interesting. First thing to note is that it works currently on Android and iPhone devices even in the prototype version they have up. … Continue reading
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Thank You Twitter and Facebook
Getting people to build mobile websites has been an uphill battle for a long time. We had a chicken and egg problem. People didn’t browse the web from their devices because the experience was horrible, and website owners didn’t make … Continue reading
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Mobilize 2010 Wrapup
I was at Mobilize 2010 yesterday. Fantastic event! Congrats to the whole GigaOm team, great job. Here’s some of the stuff that really stuck out for me: Mobile Payments The characterization of the panel that Liz lays out is pretty … Continue reading
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Base Mobile Applications
There’s a decent amount of chatter about microcredit/microlending being used in developing regions, and plenty of respect paid to the need to get “the unbanked” represented in mobile payment systems. But what about filling out the rest of the desktop … Continue reading
Posted in Android, Community, MobilePayments, Software, Technology, ThisIsMobility
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SmartMeter Sensor Network
I was at the SVC Wireless conference this weekend, and caught the Internet of Things panel. A decent amount of the conversation revolved around revamping the power grid. Despite hearing about “concerns about the new SmartMeters here in California” on … Continue reading
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Mobile 2.0 Reflections
With another Mobile 2.0 conference just wrapped up I wanted to just highlight some of the topics and conversations: Irv Henderson from Yahoo kicked off the topic with a presentation that included a sub-$100 phone that included a bunch of … Continue reading
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Android Numbers Game
As far as number of handsets out in the market go Android has been wonderfully successful. Most folks agree that all things being equal, the number of Android handsets is going to surpass the number of iPhones pretty soon. Generally … Continue reading
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