• Wireless Ink begins.

2002

• Wireless Ink files U.S. Provisional Application Serial. No. 60/389,430 on Jun. 18, 2002

2003

• Wireless Ink files Patent Application No. 10/464,526 filed June 18, 2003 claiming the priority of U.S. Provisional Application Serial Number. 60/389,430 filed Jun. 18, 2003
• Wireless Ink begins blogging with, FUSE Launches “FUSE On Your Mobile”, Jun. 2003
• Moblogging for the Masses: Part 2 by Mark Frauenfelder – Dec. 2003
• Winksite Adds To Geolocation Features – Dec. 2003
• Mobilizing The Masses With “Location Aware” Applications – Dec. 2003
• The Winksite Difference: Part 1 – Dec. 2003

2004

• Boing Boing mobile from Winksite Launches – Jan. 2004
• The Winksite Story – Feb. 2004
• The Winksite Difference: Part 2 – Feb. 2004
• Winksite Ranks Among The Top Applications In Openwave’s New “Mobile Applications Directory” – Mar. 2004
• Winksite Adds Creative Commons to Mobile Blogging” – Mar. 2004
• Winksite Adds Enhanced Mobile Site Personalization, “Show Your Colours” – Mar. 2004
• The Future Of “Roll Your Own” Mobile Revenues: Part 1 – Apr 2004
• Present And Future Uses Of Feeds & Syndication On Mobile Phones – Sep. 2004
• Winksite Overrun With Zombie Madness – Sep. 2004
• Mobile Feed Reader With A Twist – Oct. 2004
• Creative Commons Licensed Library Launches – Delivering Mobile Editions Of Books To Phones, Nov. 2004
• Winksite featured in The NYT & International Herald Tribune, “A Library And Cinema In Your Pocket” – Dec. 2004

2005

• O’Reilly’s MAKE: Zine Launches Mobile Site with Winksite – Jun. 2005
• Winksite Helps Sponsor First series of BlogHer Foundation Sponsorships – Jun. 2005
• Politics to Go: How Mobile Technology Empowers Just-in-Time Politics – Sep. 2005
• O’Reilly’s Nokia Smartphone Hacks Acknowledges Winksite – Sep. 2005
• Winksite presents at MobileMonday New York Event at the Associated Press – Sep. 2005
• Politics To Go: Winksite Mobile Case Studies – Oct. 2005
• Direct-To-Consumer Mobile Portals & Winksite – Oct 2005
• Warner Launches Mobile Portal For The Veronicas – Mash-Up Of Branded Content With Social Media -  Oct 2005
• Mobile Social Software: WINKsite Presents at Cool School – Nov 2005

2006

• Winksite Metro Gatherings: Chennai & Mumbai – Feb. 2006
• Winksite Metro Gatherings: Seattle – Feb. 2006
• One World. No Borders. : Metroblogging Network “Mobilized” By Winksite Across 42 Cities – Feb 2006
• Upcoming.org Understands The Value Of “Mobile-Friendly” – Feb. 2006
• An Open Letter to Google: “Page adapted for mobile phone?” Please stop now, you are crippling sites, not adapting pages. – Mar. 2006
• Mainstream America is Ready for Bar Codes – Converging “Realspace” and “Mobilespace” – Mar 2006
• WINKsite: fusing the mobile and Web worlds through barcodes – May 2006
• Winksite in the NYT: Software Out There. The Internet is entering its Lego era. – Apr. 2006
• One World. No Borders. 2.5 Billion Connected People. – Nov. 2006
• Under The Radar: Mobility: Winksite Presentation – Nov. 2006
• CNET/Rafe Needleman – “My vote for the best of the bunch for mobile content today is Winksite.” – Nov. 2006
• Winksite Continues to Grow Daily. Upgrade Scheduled – Nov. 2006
• Winksite Releases WordPress Wii Edition Plugin (WiiPress v1.3) – Dec. 2006

2007

• Winksite Releases WordPress Ultimate Gamer’s Pack – Jan. 2007
• Fest Mob – A Mobile Social Experiment – Jan. 2007
• The Blog Herald – “Winksite is amazing and an excellent way to create a rich mobile site. It is packed with features and possibilities. The service that Winksite provides is cutting edge and allows for easy mobile site and community creation. Best of all it is ad free and will cost you nothing! With its future movement towards more social features and the promise of an easier interface, it is positioned well for the next gen in mobile site creation.” – Jan 2007
• Preview: MobileOK Templates – Mar. 2007
• See You at MobileCampNYC – May 2007
• Scripting News/David Winer, “I thought Winksite could be the perfect first-peer in Twitter’s coral reef.” – May 2007
• Winksite Nominated for CNET’s Webware 100 Awards. – May 2007
• Mobile SEO at Mobile Monday NY – Jun. 2007
• Winksite Releases Major Upgrade – Love the Mobile Web. – Jun. 2007
• InformationWeek Interviews Winksite Founder on Mobile SEO – Aug 2007
• Mobile Bar Code Camp – Sep. 2007
• Winksite presents at Mobile Web Americas 2007: Mobile Communities: What Are They And How Do I Make Them Work For Me? – Sep. 2007
• Winksite Presenting at NY Web 2.0 Meetup – Sep 2007
• Ashley Tisdale’s On The Mobile Web – Or – How What I Do For A Living Finally Impressed My Gradeschooler – Sep. 2007
• Vodafone UK is Clearly Wrong – The User-Agent String Issue – Sep. 2007
• Save the Moble Web from Vodafone. Actions to Take. – Sep. 2007
• PCWorld/IDG Article, “Vodafone Tech Change Stings Mobile Web Designers (Winksite)”(First brick laid for a walled garden?) – Sep. 2007
• The New Walled Garden? – Sep 2007
• Yahoo! Are You Listening? – Oct. 2007
• Tutorials for Creating a Mobile Website at Winksite – Oct. 2007
• Winksite – Monetize Your Mobile Site with Advertising from Google AdSense or Admob. – Oct. 2007
• On Making Bank with Admob – Oct. 2007
• Let’s Meet Up at MobileCamps in LA, SF, or NY. – Oct. 2007
• Winksite Launches on Helio Portal (starting with BoingBoing & The Metroblogging Network – Q3/Q4, 2007
• Bango, Mobile Marketing Foundation (MMA), dotMobi, and Winksite found “I Love Mobile Web” – Q4, 2007

2008

• Winksite is Listed in Apple’s Web App Directory- Jan. 2008
• 3Next Offers Winksite on Portal- Mar. 2008
• Rules for Responsible Reformatting: A Developer Manifesto by Luca Passani (w/Winksite Contributions) – Mar. 2008
• Mowser is Dead. The Mobile Web is Alive. …And Here Are the “Mobile Analytics” to Support It. – Apr. 2008
• Nokia Conversations Launches Mobile Version With Winksite – Apr. 2008
• The Manga Man Premiere – Winksite teams up with Sci-Fi Author Alexander Besher In Meta-Multimedia First – Oct. 2008
• MobileCampNYC3 – Call for Barcode Enthusiasts & Developers – Oct. 2008

2009

• United States Patent 7,599,983 awarded to Wireless Ink Corp – October 6, 2009

From taptu’s blog, “taptology”:

In this survey powered by Winksite, our respondents provided us with insight on what they want on the mobile web and how they use Taptu and, armed with that knowledge, we can continue to develop a product that meets their needs.

The idea is to have a dedicated track for all things related to QR Codes, Barcodes, RFID, and Physical Hyperlinking in general. For this track we will have 10 sessions dedicated to one room (although it is still possible to use free spots on the main grid.) I’m helping curate this track so please send an email introducing yourself if you would like to hold a session to dharper [AT] wirelessink [DOT] com. Also be sure to register below.

Want to attend this Mobile Camp? Sign up Here!

New York, NY, October 18, 2008 — Winksite, a leading mobile content management and social networking software company whose solutions connect publishers to their audiences and audience members to each other, announced plans to team up with novelist Alexander Besher, Philip K. Dick Award nominated author, to launch direct to mobile “The Manga Man,” the San Francisco-based journalist, author, and futurist’s first novel since his celebrated “Rim Trilogy” (“Rim,” “Mir,” and “Chi;” HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster). Debut date is October 31st at www.mangaman.mobi.

Besher’s tome is a 600-page alternative fantasy noir epic that’s set in the mid-21st century when the speed of media has overtaken the speed of light. The story features a half-digital, half-human “post-Zen” Butoh dancer-assassin whose mission is “to stop the warlords who plan to clone the universe.”

Dave Harper, Founder & CEO of Winksite, says “Working with Besher and his creative team is a natural fit for us. In the past, we’ve collaborated with a wide group of writers and progressive thinkers including Stanford law professor and political activist Lawrence Lessig who inspired us to launch the Creative Commons Library, sci-fi author Cory Doctorow, horror meister David Wellington, and Internet ‘Smart Mobs’ guru Howard Rheingold. Besher’s futuristic vision strikes us as being not only timely but timeless.”

Besher’s multimedia ‘Manga Man’ is the first work of literature in history to appear on a QR/2D-coded T-shirt designed by the prize-winning Italian graphic novel artist Daniele Serra.

For his part, Besher is equally thrilled to be working with Winksite. “I’m convinced that the media platform of the future lies in mobile phone technology. It’s a market that’s growing by leaps and bounds. Just witness the advances represented by Apple’s iPhone and companies like Nokia which is bringing out its multimedia monster, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone. Not to mention the first handheld projectors that are due out this year, and the advent of A4-size screens. I can only say that we’ve truly entered the post-Gutenberg, post-McLuhan age. Our credo is ‘You are the Media.’”

“Dave Harper is that rare breed of visionary and entrepreneur,” Besher declares. “We chose to go with Winksite over other proprietary QR-code gatekeepers and mobile platform sites because Dave is open source and his hands-on passion for pushing the envelope on mobile content knocked me out. He’s been an invaluable partner in helping us bring our vision to life.”

“I also deeply relate to Winksite’s motto: ‘One World. No Borders. 3 Billion Connected People,’” Besher says. “That’s what all my novels have been about—erasing the interface between the human body and the outside world. I hope that everyone will wear my book. We can all meet on the dust jacket on the other side of the Milky Way.”

Advance praise for “The Manga Man”:

“A hidden SF master.”

Rudy Rucker, Philip K. Dick Award winning author of Postsingular, Spaceland, and The Ware Tetralogy (great-grandson of Hegel)

“Pure Superfuture cooked down in sf’s last mad scientist’s lab. Enough ideas for thirty other books blistered down into a sharp little drug that’ll reengineer the front of your head. You want a hit of this. Trust me.”

Warren Ellis, author of the Transmetropolitan and Global Frequency series of graphic novels

“Fascinating! Great!”

China Miéville, author of Iron Council and Perdido Street Station, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the British Fantasy Award

“This book would make Philip K. Dick delirious with joy. Nobody else in science fiction has ever pushed the envelope this hard—or with better success.”

Spider Robinson, best selling novelist and Robert A. Heinlein Estate-appointed completer of sequels to Heinlein’s novels.

THE MANGA MAN PREMIERE (INVITE TO AN EVENT)

Butoh Without Borders Multimedia party and launch for Alexander Besher’s QR Code sentient T-shirt novel THE MANGA MAN this Halloween. All proceeds to benefit Doctors Without Borders.

Date: October 31, 2008
Time: 6 – 9pm
Location: UPDATED: Arte Movimiento SUB Mission, 2183 Mission at 18th Street, San Francisco

About Alexander Besher
Born in China, raised and educated in Japan, Alexander Besher is a San Francisco-based author, journalist and novelist. He is the author of “The Pacific Rim Almanac” (HarperCollins, ’91), and the “Rim” trilogy of futuristic thrillers including the Philip K. Dick Award-nominated “Rim” (HarperCollins ’94; HarperPrism, ’95); “Mir,” and “Chi” (Simon & Schuster, ’98 and ’99). He served as editor of the Chicago Review literary quarterly at the University of Chicago , was contributing editor to InfoWorld magazine, and wrote “Pacific Rim” (Chronicle Features), an internationally syndicated weekly column covering business, technological and social trends in the Asia-Pacific region. His forthcoming novel “The Manga Man” is the first title in his new “Dance of Darkness” trilogy of alternative noir fantasy novels. His novels have been translated into over a dozen languages and film-optioned. Recently, he has been writing screenplays and television scripts.

About Winksite
Winksite is a leading mobile content management and social networking software company whose solutions connect publishers to their audiences and audience members to each other. For more information visit winksite.com

…and a very cool new feature at Winksite, (not yet publicly released) which will adapt select Nokia Conversations video content for display on their mobile site.

UPDATE
The video channels are now up and running on the Nokia Conversations mobile site. Please see the mobile site embed directly below.

Stay in on the conversation…
(via Nokia Conversations)
There are many ways to keep up with what’s happening at Nokia Conversations. You can use your RSS reader to subscribe to all (or just some) of the posts we put up and even the comments other users respond with – check out the full list of RSS feeds after the jump. We also have mobile versions of our site through Winksite and Mippin. ]]> http://harper.wirelessink.com/2008/04/21/nokia-conversations-launches-mobile-version-with-winksite/feed/ 2 http://harper.wirelessink.com/2008/04/15/mowser-is-dead-the-mobile-web-is-alive-and-i-have-the-mobile-analytics-to-prove-it/ http://harper.wirelessink.com/2008/04/15/mowser-is-dead-the-mobile-web-is-alive-and-i-have-the-mobile-analytics-to-prove-it/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:14:39 +0000 David Harper http://harper.wirelessink.com/?p=152 Mowser is Dead.
Russell Beattie who recently closed down his transcoding service Mowser posted in part, “I think anyone currently developing sites using XHTML-MP markup, no Javascript, geared towards cellular connections and two inch screens are simply wasting their time, and I’m tired of wasting my time,” he wrote. The presence of a separate “mobile Web,” he said, is “limited at best, and dying at worst.” He goes on to say, “Let me say that again clearly, the mobile traffic just isn’t there. It’s not there now, and it won’t be.”

The Mobile Web is Alive.
Not quite Russell. While Mowser may have failed it’s a stretch to imply the Mobile Web is failing as well. No one wants a lame, featureless, stripped down, even “bastardized” version of anything. That is true today, was true a year ago when Mowser launched, and true 8 years ago when “WAP” was first declared dead. Yes, for mobile enthusiasts transcoding service like Mowser can be handy at times but for the masses those “times” have never come and never will. Besides what you end up is not something a brand, business, or individual serious about mobile cares to have presented to their audience — if you are the audience — consume.

On the contrary mobile traffic is building worldwide month on month. This growth is being witnessed across a variety of services — ad networks, social search/discovery services, and emerging mobile analytic services.

Dennis of Wap Review has this to say about it, “The Future of the Web on Mobile Phones.” …and then there is Carlo Longino of Mob Happy with, “The Mobile Web Is Dead. Long Live The Mobile Web.” Then finally, Mike Rowehl (Mowser Co-founder) has his own take with, “What Happened to Independent Thought?”

…And Here Are the “Mobile Analytics” to Support It.
On April 28th in New York, I’ve organized a free MobileMonday NY event that includes panelists from several companies active in mobile analytics and social search – Amethon, Bango, Mobilytics, Resolution Media, Quattro, TigTag, and taptu.

In part, we’ll be discussing insights gained from watching the very real growth of the Mobile Web and what is being learned from the aggregated mobile data and social actions of people. The event is free — learn more and RSVP.

You’re all invited.