PBwiki goes mobile on iPhone, BlackBerry

A PBWiki, as viewed from the iPhone.

PBwiki on Tuesday announced the mobile optimization of its hosted wiki service for its Professional and Professional Plus Edition subscription clients.

PBwiki, which hosts, among other wiki services, Twitter's API docs, FedEx's marketing extranet, and the BarCamp wiki, has now made its wiki interface more readable, when surfed to from the browser of an Apple iPhone or Research In Motion BlackBerry.

PBwiki's Mobile Edition lets visitors to PBwiki's Web site participate most of ways from the field as they can from the desktop, with the exception of editing an existing page. It's a shame that PBwiki doesn't yet enable what-you-see-is-what-you-get editing to pre-existing pages, but the company says that pretty big hurdle could disappear in the future.

Road warriors can, however, view and search pages, leave comments, and create new pages. The latter isn't any more elegant than note jotting, but for mobile workers, getting the idea down first, and formatting it later from a desktop or laptop computer, will be better than nothing. In addition to viewing files, BlackBerry users will also be able to download files to the phone's local or external storage card.

[rossmay]

Socialtext has had this capability since 2006. We call it Miki, the mobile wiki.
http://www.socialtext.com/blog/2006/04/75.html

That said, I'm sure that PBwiki's new mobile capability will be a boon for their users. Mobile use opens up a host of new use cases and accelerates productivity.

[yobelto]

I do recommend the wiki, it is very simple to use, no overhead to implement in your company, can start using it from day 1