The PBwiki team is on our annual office offsite, and we’ve been spending lots of quality time together brainstorming about new product possibilities, ways to make PBwiki more useful to our users, and how to make PBwiki the obvious answer for your online collaborative needs. In addition to the longer-term strategic planning and such, we’ve alsoContinue reading “New feature for premium wikis: Accelerated access and search”
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PBwiki = paintball wiki
The PBwiki team is on an offsite this week, and on top of a bunch of regular work we’re doing a couple of great activities — here’s some photos from our paintball session this morning.
New "What is PBwiki doing" page with realtime updates
[Edit: We removed this after trying it out for a few weeks!] Now you can follow the daily activities of the PBwiki crew – realtime! PBwiki makes fairly heavy use of IM already, so we built an IM bot that forwards certain messages to our newest wiki page. This means the page will receive tonsContinue reading “New "What is PBwiki doing" page with realtime updates”
Statshot — PBwiki by the numbers
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”
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.
