Category Archives: General

Sometimes I get a funny reaction when I talk about PBwiki to people: “But…what about access controls? Who controls the content?” Our response is always the same: “The problem is not access controls! The real problem is figuring out how to get people to contribute to a community.” Whenever I start a PBwiki, my biggestContinue reading “"The problem is not access controls!"”

We’d love to hear what templates you want to see on PBwiki (e.g., plan a trip, run a group project, etc). Also, if you’ve built a template and think it might be useful for others, we’d love to see it. We’ll keep an eye out and add the best template submissions PBwiki-wide for thousands ofContinue reading “What PBwiki templates would you like to see?”

Check out the image from Google Zeitgeist: What will happen in 2007?

Currently, when creating a new wiki on PBwiki, one must choose between ‘Classic Editor’ and the ‘experimental WYSIWYG editor’. Depending on your answer, this enables (or not) our fancy new editor for that wiki. We’ve been receiving a lot of praise for the new editor (thanks guys!) as well as a few questions regarding continuedContinue reading “Support for both WYSIWYG and WikiStyle editors”

We’re so excited to welcome Brian Klug to the PBwiki team! He sold his house and flew to the Bay Area all the way from Virginia. He’ll be working on the WYSIWYG interface immediately, and then some other stuff we have up our sleeve. A little bit about Brian: Brian co-founded MindSay with Adam OstrowContinue reading “Brian Klug joins PBwiki as our javascript guru”

There’s been a lot of discussion about the Peanut Butter Manifesto, in which Yahoo SVP notes that Yahoo is “spread too thin.” He also notes that he hates peanut butter. Outrageous! Here’s our official response: In defense of peanut butter.

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!”

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”

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”