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Gabriel marked one of mdy's replies in Twitter as useful. mdy replied to the idea "Direct replies to phone".

mdy replied on May 31, 2008 02:01 to the idea "Direct replies to phone" in Twitter:

Hi. Yes, I think a lot of people would like this feature.

But since it's not available, I've been making do by using the Track feature. Track tells Twitter to send you a copy of every tweet that contains whatever keyword you specify.

So for example, if your username is "djdatz," Twitter will send a copy of every tweet that contains your username to your phone or im (whether or not the tweet was written by someone you follow) if you send "track djdatz" to Twitter.

Unfortunately, you won't be able to test this right now since Track appears to be temporarily disabled while Twitter's IM is being worked on. Once it's back up, I hope you'll consider giving this a try because I think it will do what you need.

Gabriel started following the idea "Direct replies to phone" in Twitter.

sraymond replied on May 30, 2008 18:35 to the question "Wiki to Word document?" in PBwiki:

Tim: I find that the formatting is horribly preserved when you try to import HTML (which gets to be some very messy markup in PBWiki) into Word. Sure, it works well for a simple collaborative text page, but when you start adding tables and styles the wheels start to come off. Also, there's no easy way to link pages.

Still, your point is well taken - if the html works for you, life is good.

Tim replied on May 30, 2008 17:23 to the question "Wiki to Word document?" in PBwiki:

You know.. Word can open html pages and save them as .doc files...

for 1.0 wikis, you can save out the http://wikiname.pbwiki.com/pagename?r... version of the page...
in 2.0 wikis, use this page: http://wikiname.pbwiki.com/pagename?m...

If there are images, you can save the page as "html complete" in internet explorer to make sure that they get preserved as well..

I've had great luck with this method, hope it works for you as well.

sraymond replied on May 30, 2008 04:31 to the question "Wiki to Word document?" in PBwiki:

David: I agree with your point about "collaborative authoring" falling short if you can only author wiki pages.

Gabriel: Yup... Google can do collaborative document authoring, but not even their "sites" allow for consuming the wiki as anything other than html.

Rachel Pennig replied on May 19, 2008 21:56 to the question "Upgrading Existing Wikis to 2.0" in PBwiki:

Good news! We're just about to start beta testing our 1.0 -> 2.0 update process. You can sign up to be a beta tester here:
http://blog.pbwiki.com/2008/05/19/wer...

David Vaile replied on May 17, 2008 15:10 to the question "Wiki to Word document?" in PBwiki:

One of the key issues is footnotes. If footnotes from a serious wiki doc can be reintegrated into a form that can be converted to Word or even better, RTF, then these are useful for all sorts of other publishing purposes. Without this, the fantastic open collaborative authoring capability is crippled, because not all projects can use Wiki online format as their only output format.

A comment on the question "Upgrading Existing Wikis to 2.0" in PBwiki:

yes... it's 1 page at a time, but using the accelerator keys, you can do it pretty quickly – Tim, on May 16, 2008 16:08

peter replied on May 16, 2008 15:48 to the question "Upgrading Existing Wikis to 2.0" in PBwiki:

Hi Tim, does this migrate the wiki from 1 version to the other?

Tim replied on May 16, 2008 15:33 to the question "Upgrading Existing Wikis to 2.0" in PBwiki:

something that may be useful to some people on this thread:

http://getsatisfaction.com/pbwiki/top...

A comment on the question "Upgrading Existing Wikis to 2.0" in PBwiki:

seems like with a little javascript magic, it'd be easy to get something just like discussion messages at the bottom of pages in pbwiki 1.0 – Tim, on May 16, 2008 15:31

Clark replied on May 16, 2008 13:18 to the question "Upgrading Existing Wikis to 2.0" in PBwiki:

I was set up to beta test migration from 1. to 2.0 and simply didn't notice that I had to reply to the email, and missed out! Now I'm just waiting waiting waiting... I really want 2.0 so that discussion messages are at the bottom of the page instead of in a separate link.

peter replied on May 16, 2008 11:05 to the question "Upgrading Existing Wikis to 2.0" in PBwiki:

any estimates ETA for this please? Surely you have a date penciled in?

I would have thought the migration tool for existing users would have been ready before you allowed new users to use 2.0. Almost seems like us existing users are not as important.

A comment on the question "Upgrading Existing Wikis to 2.0" in PBwiki:

We still aren't ready to launch the migration tool - I don't have an ETA for you, but I know it's in the final stages of testing. If you need to show your bosses what a 2.0 wiki can do, why don't you create a demo one for them? I would also recommend talking to sales@pbwiki, they have all sorts of hard numbers and resource materials for you and your company to consider. – Casey Greene, on May 08, 2008 22:48

peter replied on May 08, 2008 21:59 to the question "Upgrading Existing Wikis to 2.0" in PBwiki:

hi I need this quick to impress my boss please.
i want to show them all the new features - they are talking about mediawiki and i need to stop them!
please dont forget me - im a premium user!

Pere Rosales replied on May 06, 2008 15:31 to the question "Upgrading Existing Wikis to 2.0" in PBwiki:

When are you planning to have available the 1.0 >> 2.0 migration?

ssm replied on April 20, 2008 15:02 to the question "Wiki to Word document?" in PBwiki:

I concur. I am considering using PBwiki for a major project, but am hesitating because it will be very difficult to export the results to Word.

Clay Newton replied on April 18, 2008 04:35 to the problem "Copy and paste challenges" in PBwiki:

Yes, I have done a similar thing by pasting into a txt document. It kills all formatting when repasted, but it's easier than the alternative.

Another workaround is to paste it into the Source window. It strips all formatting like a txt file.

Vu Nguyen replied on April 18, 2008 03:49 to the problem "Copy and paste challenges" in PBwiki:

Although some of our fixes for this should be coming pretty soon, if there's something you need to do now, one bright user noticed that if you pasted into a Google Document first, copied from there, then pasted into PBwiki, the extra nasty code reduced greatly.