"I've lived in the Bay Area 12 years and I only yesterday made it to the Takara Sake Factory. It was everything I hoped it would be! There's a cool little museum with the hundreds of little tools used…" - David Weekly
I know this is an old post, but do you consider your core value add to include infrastructure? It may very well be since it's fun to optimize... If not, would you consider using the google app engine (or one of it's inevitable competitors) for scalable virtual infrastructure? I'm sure they or someone else will support php with such a model at some point. - Brad
I think insofar as we can create an infrastructure that scales unusually well for our particular application (wiki hosting) it is absolutely a competitive advantage. That's infrastructure in terms of algorithms and crossbar optimization and not necessarily owning and operating our own iron. At some point (2-3 years down the road) we'll probably move off of owning and operating our own servers, when the grid providers become sufficiently competitive to provide better pricing than we could drive on our own. - David Weekly
That makes a lot of sense - scaling an app isn't necessarily one-size-fits-all. Seems like you're having a lot of fun, and being successful.. good combo :) - Brad
I'm playing around with making my website just a mashup of the information in different places - see http://davidweekly.org/ for the experiment in progress. - David Weekly
"Ginormous, cheap, delicious sandwiches that double as both lunch and dinner. Damn. It's such a fun find, tucked away by the side of El Camino in a ghetto little shack but somehow always bustling.…" - David Weekly
"This restaurant is trying so hard to be a fancy Belmont restaurant. And it's really almost there. The architecture is great, the wine list is very good and even features an impressive selection of…" - David Weekly
"goldentofu - we give people their own (public/private) hosted wikis for free. Extra features (more control over who can access the wiki, what it looks like, more storage space) are offered for a paid subscription - it's kind of like web shareware. :)" - David Weekly
"utcursch, So glad you like PBwiki. :) While we run on our own software (just like Digg, Google, etc), we have APIs for getting data in and out and also make it really easy to extend by letting users drop in widgets (like 30 Boxes spreadsheets or YoutTube videos) and custom HTML (for widgets from third parties that can let you vote, post audio, etc). If you'd like more, I'm all ears." - David Weekly
"And as an FYI, the PBwiki team reads Digg. (I'm the founder & CEO.) We're very glad you like the videos! If you have comments about PBwiki feel free to post them here (the good with the bad!) or message me directly at david [at] pbwiki.com." - David Weekly
