I’ve been running some internal stats on the various activity levels across the PBwiki landscape. This set of numbers breaks categories down by volume of activity rather than unique users. How much activity on private versus public wikis? Around 2/3 of our activity is on private wikis. Takeaway: Our users have found lots of usesContinue reading “Statshot — PBwiki by the numbers”
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No loafing at the PBwiki HQ
And Fridays are very serious. Apparently some kid by our local Vietnamese place was making balloon … pbj sandwiches. They’re not usually that chewy.
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!
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”
Wiki delete now works
For a while, we had temporarily halted wikis from being deleted to do some behind-the-curtain plumbing. Wiki delete works again. If you really want to delete your PBwiki (why would you want to?), just log in, click “Settings” and then click “Delete.” Once it’s gone, it’s gone forever, so be careful! Note: Once you deleteContinue reading “Wiki delete now works”
We do [not] like spam
As part of our spam abatement we’ve been doing some research about how to identify various kinds of Spam. The following data is from our test of Spam musubi. Initial results are promising.
Our new FrontPage helps you get started using PBwiki faster
Here’s an email I wrote to our educational advisory panel (join here) last night: Well, it’s 10:25pm and I should be getting ready to sleep, but I can’t without getting this email out!! Let me quickly tell you about something we did to make PBwiki easier for your coworkers and students. We just rolled outContinue reading “Our new FrontPage helps you get started using PBwiki faster”
Curious about PBwiki privacy and security?
We’ve had a few people e-mail us with questions regarding the privacy and security of PBwiki. Is PBwiki secure? Is it managed by a 3rd party? Are PBwiki servers sitting in some guys living room or running at an appropriate colocation center? In an e-mail written to one of our users, our master chief, DavidContinue reading “Curious about PBwiki privacy and security?”
United Nations and PBwiki Partner to Provide Global Platform for Corporate Responsibility
PBwiki’s mascot, Peebers the Unstoppable Robot of Collaboration (SM), is clanking his way through the august halls of the United Nations today, pressing the flesh and helping to create global corporate accord. The UN’s Global Compact is devoted to creating an opt-in organization for corporations who wish to be good citizens. The Global Compact isContinue reading “United Nations and PBwiki Partner to Provide Global Platform for Corporate Responsibility”
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