7:30am on Tuesday, March 13th, 2007: It looks like we’re having a hiccup in service right now, and we’re working on fixing it so we can get PBwiki service back up and running right away. [Update, 7:42am]: This is fixed. We’re looking into why this happened so it never happens again.
Category Archives: General
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”
Happy Peanut Butter Lover's Day
Today is National Peanut Butter Lover’s Day! We hope you enjoy any real and/or virtual Peanut Butter Sandwiches you create today!
Thanks for the fridge!
Remember the part about how our huge splurge after getting the financing money was to buy a larger, but very basic, fridge? More than a week before it was scheduled to be delivered, I received several phone messages about someone wanting to deliver a fridge to us the following day. Needless to say, I wasContinue reading “Thanks for the fridge!”
Our wisest PBwiki user
An email we got after announcing our new Point-and-Click editor. Thank you. I am a 77-year-old woman with only mild computer skills, and you have just made my life significantly easier. –Elizabeth D. To make your own free wiki, visit http://www.pbworks.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”
Some contradictory feedback
We just got these two pieces of feedback on our Point-and-Click editor within 25 minutes of each other: oh pbwiki. just when i think you couldn’t make it any easier… there you go again. it is a beautiful editor and it couldn’t be simpler. thank you for your great work! i have started pbwikis forContinue reading “Some contradictory feedback”
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"”
PDF export improvements coming along
Lots of people have requested an enhanced PDF export capability — our new team member Igor has been doing some great work adding features to this little gem of a feature. Top priorities for us are: 1) proper unicode support (for all those wacky citizens of the world) 2) proper handling of lists, especially nestedContinue reading “PDF export improvements coming along”
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”