Established in 2001, Winksite was the first website generator and community platform built from the ground up for mobile. Winksite provides an easy-to-use interface that allows anyone — using only their phone — to set up their own space on the Internet and share ideas. Winksite brings experience and execution together in a platform that generates beautiful, standards-compliant, speed- and SEO-optimized, people-friendly experiences for mobile. Winksite is privately held and based in NY.
About the Winksite Logo
The Winksite logo was designed by Denis Radenkovic, of 38one.
2001
- Winksite begins.
2002
- Winksite Launches - Jan. 2002
- U.S. Provisional Application Serial. No. 60/389,430 is filed. - June 18, 2002
2003
- Patent Application No. 10/464,526 claiming the priority of U.S. Provisional Application Serial No. 60/389,430 is filed. - June 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
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Site Of The Day: WinkSiteSite Of The Day: WinkSiteWinksite named, "Site of the Day" at Website Magazine - 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 200
- Winksite in The New York Times: 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
- Marketing Pilgram,"Winksite Shares Some Mobile Love" - Jul. 2001
- InformationWeek's Stephen Wellman Interviews Winksite Founder on Mobile SEO, "How To Optimize Your Mobile Website For Search"– 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
- Washington Post, "Mobile Web developers irate at Vodafone move" - Sep. 2001
- 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
- Taptu Survey Powered by Winksite – December 4, 2008
2009
- Affiliate Convention 2009 – Mobile SEO – June 21, 2009
- United States Patent No. 7,599,983 awarded to Wireless Ink Corporation – October 6, 2009
- Social Networking & Libraries: Best Practices & Challenges – December 31, 2009
- Winksite in Print – March 13, 2010
- AMEX OPEN Recommends Winksite as One of 8 Tools for Easily Creating a Mobile Version of Your Website - December 9, 2010
- InfoWorld: Escape the App Store: 4 ways to create smartphone Web apps – January 31, 2011
- CISCO Blog: Social Media for Social Good – Winksite Resonates – February 1, 2011
- The Manga Man 2.0 – Winksite Releases 2011 Upgrade of Sci-Fi Author’s QR Code-Accessed Transmedia Novel on Sentient T-shirt Cross-Digital Platform – February 3, 2011
- Registered Users/Publishers exceed 100,000. - March, 2011
- United States Patent No. 7,908,342 awarded to Wireless Ink Corporation – March 15, 2011
- Winksite ranks #12 out of the "Top 50 Movers and Shakers in Mobile Services", Website Magazine - June 27, 2011
- New Internet Marketing Book, “The Bootstrapper’s Guide to the Mobile Web,” highlights Winksite – February 15, 2012
- United States Patent No. 8,135,801 awarded to Wireless Ink Corporation – March 13, 2012
- "The Mobile Website Toolbox – 20 of the Best Tools and Apps" lists Winksite - June 16, 2012
- Winksite ranks #26 out of the "Top 50 Movers and Shakers in Mobile Services", Website Magazine - August, 2012
- Winksite listed by American Libraries, A publication of the American Library Association as one of the, "10 Great Technology Initiatives for Your Library" - February 2013
- Green Industry Pros, "Time to Make Your Website Mobile-Friendly" - March 2014
- United States Patent No. 8,793,336 awarded to Wireless Ink Corporation – July 29 2014
- United States Patent No. 8,825,801 awarded to Wireless Ink Corporation - September 2, 2014
2015
- Marketers Black Book, "List of DIY Mobile Website and App Builders" mentions, considers Winksite one of the, "best FREE mobile website builders online." - March, 2015
- United States Patent No. 9,032,039 awarded to Wireless Ink Corporation – May 12, 2015
- Winksite ranks #27 out of the "Top 50 Mobile Resources for the Digital Enterprise", Website Magazine - August, 2015
- Radio EDUtalk: Winksite for Educators: Listen to the podcast. - August 19, 2016
- WINKSITE.COM and U.S. Patent Nos. 7,599,983, 7,908,342, 8,793,336, 8,825,801, 9,032,039 and other patents pending namely Application number 14324698 (Publication number 20140325369) acquired by Engagelogic Corp. - January, 2017
- U.S. Trademarks WINKSITE®, WIRELESS INK®, YOUR LIFE. YOUR FRIENDS. YOUR WORLD.®, ONE WORLD. NO BORDERS.®, and LOVE THE MOBILE WEB® were acquired by Engagelogic Corp. - January, 2017
- United States Patent No. 9,619,578 awarded to Engagelogic Corporation – April 11, 2017
- United States Patent No. 9,922,348 awarded to Engagelogic Corporation – March 20, 2018
- United States Patent No. 10,839,427 awarded to Engagelogic Corporation – November 17, 2020
2022
- United States Patent No. 11,526,911 by applicant Engagelogic Corporation awarded on December 13, 2022