We and the rest of the world were unable to access our San Jose data center for a few minutes this evening (around 5pm PST) — apparently somebody bumped the wrong fiber optic cable. Your wiki’s data was completely safe and most users were able to access their wikis at all times. We’ve discovered aContinue reading “Brief PBwiki outage”
Category Archives: General
Did you miss the press PBwiki YackPack press conference?
Don’t worry, we recorded both press conferences (2PM and 6PM PST). You can check out the recordings and all prior press coverage here: http://press.pbworks.com/Prior-Press-Coverage
PBwiki announces voice chat — and it is awesome
Ok, I can’t control myself any more. Today, we’re officially announcing voice chat in PBwiki. This means that you can now talk to anyone viewing your wiki page. It takes about 15 seconds to set up on your PBwiki — and it’s free. The details: We teamed with YackPack to embed their WalkieTalkie Widget thatContinue reading “PBwiki announces voice chat — and it is awesome”
Can't access YouTube?
Are you trying to view our PBwiki videos but your work or school is blocking YouTube? Don’t worry, we’ve uploaded all of the PBwiki videos to TeacherTube. TeacherTube is a great video site that doesn’t appear to be blocked by most employers and educational institutions. It’s completely safe for work and has other helpful videosContinue reading “Can't access YouTube?”
Today is National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day
No, it’s not a joke. We’re all in the office salivating at http://www.seriouseats.com/ (seriously, check out the photos and videos). Some stats from their page: It takes roughly 540 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter. Peanut butter is consumed in about 89 percent of US households. The world’s largest peanut butter factoryContinue reading “Today is National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day”
Educators are talking about PBwiki (and check out our videos)
We’ve been getting some flattering comments from educators around the country. Anne Bubnic, who’s with the California Technology Assistance Project (CTAP Region IV), writes about our new PBwiki videos: At CTAP, we love wikis and, in particular, we love PB Wiki. We have so many wikis that we actually had to create a wiki toContinue reading “Educators are talking about PBwiki (and check out our videos)”
PBwiki is now a billion times faster!
OK, not a billion times, but more like 6 times faster than we were a month ago. When we first started out, PBwiki was super-fast because there wasn’t much going on. As we’ve grown two things have happened – first, we’ve added lots of useful features and second, we now have lots more traffic allContinue reading “PBwiki is now a billion times faster!”
Case Study: sfxschool.pbworks.com
St. Francois Xavier Community School is using PBwiki as the school’s website for students, parents, and faculty. It’s been a smooth integration for them with a lot of things learned through the way. John Evans, the administrator of sfxschool.pbworks.com spent sometime with us to go over his experience with PBwiki. PBwiki: What’s sfxschool.pbworks.com about? JohnContinue reading “Case Study: sfxschool.pbworks.com”
Details from my talk at MACUL in Detroit
I spoke to a room of educators last week in Detroit at the MACUL conference. At first, I was nervous because I didn’t know how many people would attend the talk! But in the end, it turned out to be a lot of fun — and by the end, we had a standing-room-only event! IContinue reading “Details from my talk at MACUL in Detroit”
Whither pagers?
Earlier this week we had a service outage. The proper chain of events would be: 00:00:00 Server problem 00:00:03 Monitor processes notice problem, send page to admin’s phone 00:00:10 Phone rings with new message 00:00:30 Admin logs in to server, fixes problem 00:01:00 Problem resolved But what happened was: 00:00:00 Server problem 00:00:03 Monitor processesContinue reading “Whither pagers?”
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