Audio: David Weekly, on PBWiki’s growth among businesses, and more
Wikis have been popularized over the last several years as group-friendly ways to share information. They let people collaborate on projects from one place online, letting you do useful things like track who made what change to the text of a document in a wiki.
PBwiki has been one of the companies leading the charge. Today, it claims to be the largest provider of hosted business wikis, with more than 30,000 businesses on board, company chief executive David Weekly tells me. The second-place competitor is Atlassian, he says, with around 8,000 businesses.
Check out my full interview with Weekly for more details on the company, which he says is seeing strong growth across many different industries. As you’ll hear, he talks about how the company offers hosted wikis for schools, businesses and others, makes money from selling premium services, and has been rolling out a number of features.
Our previous coverage of the company here.
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Eric currently covers digital media technology and business news, especially what's happening on social networks and their platforms. He also writes and edits stories about venture capital, and lots of other stuff, too. He started at VentureBeat in the spring of 2007, half a year or so after Matt Marshall left his reporting job at the San Jose Mercury News to found the site. Eric previously cofounded a startup called Writewith, that was building editorial software for newspapers and other groups of writers. The startup didn't work out, but he learned a lot.