PBwiki has become a full-fledged platform with amazing third-party widgets that you can drop into your wikis. Here’s a demo video of how it works: Click To Play Just last week, we announced these new features. Spreadsheets directly on your wiki (more info here) Video upload to your wiki, or embedded from YouTube (more infoContinue reading “Latest features roundup: Spreadsheets, voice chat, event-planning, calendars, & video upload”
Monthly Archives: June 2007
Welcome to our newest engineer, Jim Blomo
Jim Blomo, a friend of mine since junior high (!), joined the PBwiki team last week. Growing up in the rough neighborhood of IRC’s #crackz, Jim escaped the shadowy life of “reverse engineering” to become classically trained at UC Berkeley’s EECS program. There he participated in all things nerdy: playing the Cal Marching Band, beingContinue reading “Welcome to our newest engineer, Jim Blomo”
PBwiki one of PC World's Top 25 Sites to Watch!
PC World named PBwiki last week as one of their Top 25 web sites to watch, along with our buddies at OpenDNS. 🙂 PC World says “The site’s simple, Web-based tools are perfect for building a wiki” – woo! Read the full article at PCworld.com!
PBwiki Wall Computer
So we like to have fun here, too. You just can’t help but want to hack on neat projects with such talented engineers around, so Nathan, Brian, and I put together a computer that is attached to our wall with thumbtacks, displays hundreds of silly cats, and makes a sound whenever interesting things happen atContinue reading “PBwiki Wall Computer”
New feature: Plan an event using your wiki
Have you ever wanted to plan an event, coordinate RSVPs, and even sell tickets right from your wiki? Lots of people already use their PBwikis to plan events (e.g., here and here). Now, we’ve added a free feature to make event-planning easier. We partnered with Eventbrite, the leading online event registration service, so you canContinue reading “New feature: Plan an event using your wiki”
Share Word docs with our PBwiki Installer — available now in beta
[Update, 1/30/08: We’ve put this project on hold, so please disregard the blog post below.] We just released a super-very-much-not-final beta of the PBwiki Installer at http://install.pbworks.com. Share Word documents through PBwiki Want to collaborate on a Word document? Use the Installer to send files to PBwiki and collaborate with your co-workers. You can sendContinue reading “Share Word docs with our PBwiki Installer — available now in beta”
Want some free materials to spread the word about PBwiki?
We have some free PBwiki materials I want to share with you. Lots of our users give talks about wikis. Some are teachers, like the 1,000+ who responded to an email I sent out a few months ago asking if they plan to present about wikis. (They presented in places like Maine, Malaysia, and TexasContinue reading “Want some free materials to spread the word about PBwiki?”
What do you think of these ideas for new PBwiki features?
We’ve been hearing requests for certain features, so we’ve put together some surveys to learn more about how they might be used. Please take the surveys below and tell us! (Max time: 10 minutes.) Would you be interested in an “email-to-a-wiki” feature? What’s your #1 goal using PBwiki? How would you use page-level access onContinue reading “What do you think of these ideas for new PBwiki features?”
Quickie Tidbit: Disallow Search Indexing
Some people who run wikis that are publicly accessible have asked us for the ability to set a robots.txt that tells polite search engines like Google, MSN, Alexa, and Yahoo to please not index the content of the public PBwiki. We listened and added this functionality. If you’d like to enable this on your PBwiki,Continue reading “Quickie Tidbit: Disallow Search Indexing”
10 Things You Didn't Know About PBwiki (Tip #22)
Ramit Sethi (PBwiki marketing guru) and I spoke recently about doing something a little different before I continue with your regularly scheduled Tip programming, so this is what we’ve decided: PBwiki has a lot of information spread out all over the place, and it’d be nice to pick a few of these things and consolidateContinue reading “10 Things You Didn't Know About PBwiki (Tip #22)”
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