Winksite Timeline

2001

• Winksite begins.

2002

• U.S. Provisional Application Serial. No. 60/389,430 on Jun. 18, 2002 is filed.

2003

• 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
• Winksite 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
• Winksite in TechCrunch: “…the multi-featured mobile hydra Winksite” – Sep. 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 Corporation – October 6, 2009