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"”
Category Archives: General
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”
Who's using PBwiki? (Part 1)
Check this out: one of our PBwiki users. We’re always thrilled when we see pictures of actual people who are using PBwiki. It makes our day! So stay tuned for more pictures of real PBwiki users. To be featured here, email pics@pbworks.com! One lucky person will win a free lifetime Platinum wiki. -Ramit
"The problem is not access controls!"
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!"”
What PBwiki templates would you like to see?
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?”
The #10 Google search term of 2006 is "wiki"
Check out the image from Google Zeitgeist: What will happen in 2007?
Support for both WYSIWYG and WikiStyle editors
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”
Brian Klug joins PBwiki as our javascript guru
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”
What we think of the Peanut Butter manifesto
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.
