On June 18th - The Web Page Toolbar and UEB - both came out at the same time. Since we were pushing hard on the UEB - we temporarily missed Andreas’ great work.

Inspired by AboutUs Bookmarklet, he got more interested in creating a full service tool!

I’ve been doing some thinking since then and I figured out that I wanted some more from a toolbar, like all the web sites I use when looking up a web page I visit. … The toolbar lets you look up web sites at Alexa, AboutUs.org, BuiltWith.com, Technorati, WebSiteValued, Compete, Quantcast, eXavier, WayBack machine and many more.

While Andreas was building this great tool to find out information about websites, he added into it much functionality (some still to be realized) in relation to AboutUs.org. The ability to add websites to your AboutUs watchlist, look at the history of the wiki page and even edit!

The thing that really caught our attention is that Andreas has added some links to our basic pages, our tour - WikiAnatomy, What is Wiki?, Spotlighted Articles, Recent Changes and our weblog.

Please go and download this toolbar.

Let Andreas know what your suggestions, questions or bugs are here at the official website for this toolbar - WebPage.nu

For some reason I am now just stumbling across this newish weblog by our own fabulous Kristina Weis

Her latest post is about the new feature on AboutUs called Recent Contributors and is most excellent!

“This new feature on AboutUs is so exciting for me! It makes the history of each wiki page leaps and bounds more transparent and personal by showing a Recent Contributors box to the right with portraits of the most recent editors to the page. (Contributors who have not yet uploaded a portrait are indicated by a question mark, and a page that has yet to be edited invites the person viewing the page to be the first contributor.)

Check it out! Go to any page on AboutUs and see how it looks. Then edit the page and watch yourself get added to the first slot in that page’s Recent Contributors box. (If you aren’t seeing your photo upload it this way.)“

For power users and new feature daredevils! The AboutUs Bookmarklet will open the AboutUs Wiki Page for the website that you are currently browsing. So if you are looking at the InstituteOfMosaicArt.com website and you want to add something to its Wiki Page on AboutUs, you can get there in the click of a link in your web browser!

Andreas mentioned it a week ago and Pat Cunningham wrote several over the past month and is happiest with this one. You rock Pat!

—->> AboutUs <<—-

1) Drag this to your bookmark bar.
2) Then click on it! Yea!!

P.S. in Internet Explorer right-click on AboutUs choose “Add to Favorites” and add to the “Links” folder.

Let us know what you
think about this handy tool.

In addition to using our wikis to communicate, and this blog, we also have a Twitter page and a del.icio.us account.

Follow our updates on Twitter if you’re interested in finding out what’s new with AboutUs and what’s going on in the wiki world. We’ll reciprocate. We’re aggregating information on the company and on the theory and practice of wikis on our del.icio.us social bookmarking account. You can see our last eight saves at the bottom of the right-hand sidebar as well.