Category Archives: New features

We're going to make logins and access controls much better

Today we had a team meeting about improving PBwiki logins and access controls. This is something that is a top priority for us, and we’ll be working on it in phases starting immediately. What to expect in the coming months Better control over access on your wiki. You’ll be able to send certain pages toContinue reading “We're going to make logins and access controls much better”

New feature for premium wikis: Accelerated access and search

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”

Latest features roundup: Spreadsheets, voice chat, event-planning, calendars, & video upload

PBwiki has become a full-fledged platform with amazing third-party widgets that you can drop into your wikis. Here’s a demo video of how it works: Click To Play Just last week, we announced these new features. Spreadsheets directly on your wiki (more info here) Video upload to your wiki, or embedded from YouTube (more infoContinue reading “Latest features roundup: Spreadsheets, voice chat, event-planning, calendars, & video upload”

New feature: Plan an event using your wiki

Have you ever wanted to plan an event, coordinate RSVPs, and even sell tickets right from your wiki? Lots of people already use their PBwikis to plan events (e.g., here and here). Now, we’ve added a free feature to make event-planning easier. We partnered with Eventbrite, the leading online event registration service, so you canContinue reading “New feature: Plan an event using your wiki”

Share Word docs with our PBwiki Installer — available now in beta

[Update, 1/30/08: We’ve put this project on hold, so please disregard the blog post below.] We just released a super-very-much-not-final beta of the PBwiki Installer at http://install.pbworks.com. Share Word documents through PBwiki Want to collaborate on a Word document? Use the Installer to send files to PBwiki and collaborate with your co-workers. You can sendContinue reading “Share Word docs with our PBwiki Installer — available now in beta”

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”

I'd Like to Share Something With You

We just added a tiny sharing sidebar to each wiki. This should make it even easier to share your wiki with friends, colleagues, and anyone else that you want to start collaborating with on your wiki. The sharing sidebar is located beneath the normal sidebar, or, if you have one of the tabbed sidebars, itContinue reading “I'd Like to Share Something With You”

New feature: Autosave

Attention students: You now have one less excuse to use — “the wiki ate my homework” line is now history! When working on a document in our Point-and-Click editor, we’ll automatically save a draft every 3 minutes. If your laptop runs out of battery, your cat closes your browser, or your new copy of WindowsContinue reading “New feature: Autosave”

PBwiki upgrades its Point-and-click editor

We just launched the newest version of our Point-and-Click editor (formerly, our WYSIWYG editor) tonight. There are quite a few specific changes listed below, but there are also a number of other subtle changes which may lead you to think the editor “just works betterâ€? now. Due to popular demand, we’ve added a strikethrough buttonContinue reading “PBwiki upgrades its Point-and-click editor”