private founded may 30 2005 headquarters san mateo california u.s. key people david weekly founder jim groff ceo 1 products a free premium hosted workspace service which allows collaborative editing of pages and files number of employees 30 website www.pbworks.com pbworks formerly pbwiki 2 is a commercial real time collaborative editing rtce system created by david weekly with ramit sethi and nathan schmidt who joined shortly thereafter as co founders . based in san mateo california 1 united states the company operates on a freemium basis offering basic features free of charge and more advanced features for a fee . 3 pbworks investors include mohr davidow ventures 4 and the seraph group as well as angel investors ron conway and chris yeh . 5 contents 1 history 2 software 3 usage 4 name change 5 see also 6 references 7 external links history edit in 2005 david weekly began developing software to build privately hosted wikis through a website which he named peanutbutterwiki 6 the company s original name stems from the concept that making a wiki is as easy as making a peanut butter sandwich . 7 the original beta test of pbworks was released for public comment on 31 may 2005 . 8 the site was formally launched in june 2005 . in early 2008 the company launched pbworks 2.0 an improved version with a new layout more granular security and a more easily customizable color scheme . pbworks also launched a mobile edition in early 2009 . in june 2008 the company hired jim groff a former employee of oracle corporation and apple inc. for its new ceo . david weekly the former ceo remains its chief product officer and chairman . 1 today pbworks contains over 6.91 million pages of user content . 9 software edit pbworks is hosted on an all linux cluster 9 and uses its own proprietary software . in early 2007 it added wysiwyg editing and in 2008 limited html source editing . since 2009 the wiki is entirely html based and original wiki markup language is no longer supported . 10 not in citations given users can create free basic wiki workspaces or upgrade to a premium plan to access additional features such as enhanced security features customization through css and more storage space . workspaces can be configured as either public or private only viewable by those who have been invited to join the workspace . citation needed the software is only available in english . citation needed usage edit a number of businesses and corporations use pbworks to create private wikis for employees ; one case study described a legal firm which had transitioned to pbworks as a document management system in order to cut their it costs . 11 major companies using pbworks to host internal documents include cafepress.com capgemini deloitte financial times kiva and wideload games . 12 educational groups include depaul university the national opinion research center at the university of chicago the university of toronto the university of wisconsin madison and wayne state university . citation needed name change edit on april 28 2009 pbwiki changed its name to pbworks and at the same time launched a new legal edition . 2 see also edit comparison of wiki software references edit a b c pbwiki taps new ceo . san francisco business times . 2008 07 21 . retrieved 2008 10 09 . a b pbwiki changes name to pbworks . prnewswire . retrieved 2009 04 28 . messinger leah 2007 06 19 . q & a on widgets and avatars interview with david feinleib of mohr davidow ventures . red herring . retrieved 2008 10 09 . wong nicole c. 2007 07 02 . young software developers eat drink beer talk code . seattle times . retrieved 2008 10 09 . kirkpatrick marshall 2007 02 21 . pbwiki raises 2m . techcrunch . retrieved 2008 10 09 . bye adrian 2008 06 19 . interview with david weekly from pbwiki . meetinnovators.com . retrieved 2008 10 09 . hagopian peter 2007 09 10 . everything you need to know to get started with content management systems . informationweek . retrieved 2008 10 09 . pbwiki forum post . pbwiki . retrieved 2008 10 09 . a b weekly david 2008 05 14 . wikis the crown jewels collaboration . ecommerce times . retrieved 2008 10 09 . pbwiki drops the wiki becomes pbworks comment from pbwiki s vp . comment . retrieved 2010 09 29 . nussenbaum evelyn 2008 02 12 . boosting teamwork with wikis . cnn money . retrieved 2008 10 09 . pbwiki case studies business . pbwiki . retrieved 2008 10 09 . external links edit pbworks home page retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title pbworks & oldid 737478093 categories wiki farmscompanies based in san mateo californiainternet properties established in 2005hidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from august 2015articles with unsourced statements from march 2015articles with unsourced statements from december 2012 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages portugu s edit links this page was last modified on 3 september 2016 at 02 18 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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