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”
Author Archives: David Weekly
Got QA?
Are you good at breaking things? Have you noticed problems in PBwiki? Are you really good at finding annoying bugs and detailing how you broke something? Do you foam at the mouth when you find a typo or something takes more than a second to load? We need you! PBwiki is currently looking for aContinue reading “Got QA?”
PBwiki Acquires Schtuff.com
Sweet! You may have heard it around, but we’re super happy to welcome Schtuff.com into the PBwiki family. (For you folks who think we’re recklessly splurging, we made the acquisition with customer revenue, not our newfound VC dollars.) This acquisition brings into the fold a million new wiki enthusiasts. We’re looking forward to working withContinue reading “PBwiki Acquires Schtuff.com”
PBwiki Raises $2m To Make Wikis Awesome
Folks, You may have heard it through the grapevine, and it’s true! We’ve raised $2m from MDV to invest primarily in engineering to make PBwiki even friendlier and easier than it is today. We’re going to continue our principled frugality (like getting Hello Boss instead of Starbucks at a quarter the price), but hopefully weContinue reading “PBwiki Raises $2m To Make Wikis Awesome”
RSS & Atom Feed "Leaks"
Dear wiki owners, A few people have been surprised recently when their users accidentally republished information from private wikis to the world at large by way of an RSS / Atom feed. Here is the low-down on how this can happen and how you can avoid it. Your users must be careful when using aContinue reading “RSS & Atom Feed "Leaks"”
Why I'm Glad We Ship Bits
There are certainly have challenges involved in sending millions of pages to hundreds of thousands of regular users. Mainland China blocked us, sometimes there are net hiccups, servers crash, etc. But at least we don’t need to deal with having to close up shop because the ship carrying all of our inventory ran aground offContinue reading “Why I'm Glad We Ship Bits”
Welsh Translation!
The wonderful Rhys Wynne has provided us a Welsh translation of our WikiStyle help page, adding to the long list of volunteer translations, including Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Filipino (Tagalog), Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Vietnamese. Thanks, everyone, for chipping in to helpContinue reading “Welsh Translation!”
The Authentication API
So we’ve been talking to a lot of users who would like more control over who gets access to their wikis, and how. Some people really like the fact that we’re hosted and secure but want to use a behind-the-firewall LDAP server to authenticate users. Others have custom single-signon solutions (like Stanford’s WebAuth). Others yetContinue reading “The Authentication API”
Props to the tagmaster
Hey, PBwiki-ers! It’s worth mentioning that the tags support that we rolled out this month across PBwiki was largely inspired by a series of wonderful meetings we had with Nitin Borwankar. This guy is like the Johnny Appleseed of the tagging world! If you need tags support in your application, talk with him and he’llContinue reading “Props to the tagmaster”
We're Video Stars!
Our rocking friends Jay & Ryan (vlogstars in their own right) came over to our new digs in San Bruno – we’re right by the SF airport, which is great, except for when the big planes come zooming overhead. Check out their awesome interview with our team!
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