We keep our word: the Spanish version of blinko was released on web to facilitate your communication with friends who do not speak English!

Our aim is to support local networks in their local languages: habits, expressions and feelings cannot be easily translated.

Enjoy your native language now (click on “Language” on top of the page if you are not authomatically shown the required version) and discover the official blinko’s blog in Spanish here.

We are very proud to announce that the Italian version of blinko was released on web (WAP to be followed soon)!

blinko will switch automatically from English to Italian depending on your location.
If you live abroad but want to use blinko in Italian, click on “Language” on top of the page.

You are now free to invite all your relatives and friends who do not speak English and comfortably communicate with them sending unlimited free SMS from the web.

If you have not signed up yet, get out there and find someone who can invite you

blinko’s Spanish version is coming soon.. Stay tuned!

As of today, blinko is supported also by HelloTXT.
HelloTXT lets you update your status and read your friends’ status across all main microblogging and social networking platforms at once.
As blinko starts growing, it will only be natural that more and more applications start integrating it. If you are interested in including blinko within one of your applications, please get in touch with us through the Feedback page.

After the “Summit on Mobile Social Networking” blinko and Buongiorno got some good press coverage:

- Italian nòva about the importance of status update (one of our key features!) can be downloaded here;

- Spanish Público about what mobile will add to social networking can be found here.

Flagged as “Summit on Mobile Social Networking”, the event took place as an open conversation with bloggers, web 2.0 experts and David Weinberger on the following topics:

- Why Mobile Social Networking matters
- Will mobile transform Social Networking?

Keynote speaker David Weinberger facilitated the conversations in Milan and Madrid with an interesting speech on “The Elevator Effect”:
“I call it the elevator effect. Once you have invented a space you couldn’t imagine how many applications and human behaviours it will cause”. For David’s full speech please click here.

Please find below a closing interview with David and its view on Mobile Social Networking.

If you feel the interview above was interesting, please help us put in on air on Current TV, by voting for it here.

Do you want to communicate in real time with all your friends? The photo status update is the easiest and quickest way to share important moments with your friends as they happen.

How to use the photo status update feature from web and from mobile

1) once you log into blinko, you will notice a box on the top left corner, asking you “what are you up to?” and just below a link saying “Upload a Photo”

2) change your status by typing what you are doing within the box, then click on “Upload a Photo”

3) browse through the folders on your computer until you select the picture you want to upload, then click on “upload”

4) click on “Share it!” and your photo status update will be visible to all your friends!

5) from there on, just click on “Update this status” to post a new status update.

Of course this feature is much more interesting directly from the mobile: it works exactly in the same way, by clicking on “Post your photo update” within the Home Page. Check put the process here.

Show your friends what you are doing in real time, right while it’s happening!

blinko is currently in beta and invitation-mode only, which means that you will need to be invited by someone already within blinko to be able to join in.
Once you have received an invitation via email or sms by one of your friends within blinko, joining is really easy.
Just click on “Join now” on blinko homepage on web: at the end of the first registration screen you will find a field called “Invitation code”. Enter the code you have received via sms or email and you will be able to complete your registration! Make sure to click “next” and go through all 4 registration screens.

On the other hand, if you have not received an invitation, you will not be able to register BUT you will be able to leave us your email address so that we can let you know as soon as blinko will be open to everyone!
Should you encounter any problem during the registration process described above, please make sure to let us know either through the “Report a problem” page or by writing to our Support email address.
Let’s keep it real!

blinko is finally available in beta for all of you to start using and sharing with all your friends!

blinko is the first social network created especially for the mobile and allows you to get closer to your friends - anytime and anywhere. Whether you’ve only got a minute to spare to catch up with what’s going on in your friends’ lives, or a couple of hours to chat, send unlimited free SMS from web or browse through profiles, photos and VIP news - blinko is your always-on, always accessible, connection.

You can easily update your friends on what you’re currently doing, how you feel, or even show them where you are or what’s important to you with photo updates. You’ll always be up to date with your friends’ latest news and activities - even if you’re nowhere near a PC.

We’re sure you’ll have fun spending time with your friends on blinko. In real time and with real people.

This blog has been created especially to keep you posted on all product news and developments and to welcome your feedback.
Let’s keep it real!