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Xinet Introduces Video 3.0 for WebNative Suite

As promised, here’s the company news on Xinet’s introduction of Video 3.0 for WebNative:

BERKELEY, California – October 7, 2009 – Xinet, Inc., the leader in digital asset management, today announced the release of Video 3.0 for WebNative Suite. The Video product addresses customers’ need for a cost-effective, easy-to-use video solution that enhances media management, streamlines [...]

Xinet Introduces WebNative Suite 16.0 to Extend Usability and Greater Efficiency to Customers

As posted earlier today at damTRENDS:

The folks at Xinet, in Berkeley, California (yes, where I saw the Grateful Dead for the first time), have just announced a major new release of their Xinet WebNative Suite for digital asset management. Xinet integrators around the world have already been quietly preparing their thousands of installations for this, [...]

European IT Website Reviews WebNative

The European-based website IT Enquirer has just published a review of Xinet WebNative Suite. The article applauded WebNative’s strong points and offered opinion on areas the writer/publisher felt needed improvement (mostly regarding video handling and user interface).

The review can be found here.

An example of the praise:

The Xinet system has plenty of these productivity boosting features, [...]

Xinet User to be Featured on DAM Panel in NYC

Xinet Users Group member Evan Shore, of Arnold Worldwide, will be one of the panelists Monday afternoon at the Henry Stewart DAM Conference in New York. Evan will be speaking during the session on DAM implementations at 4:10 pm.

The conference program provides an outline of what he’ll discuss:

Implementing DAM in a Large Advertising Agency

1) Plan ahead.

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Feature Request: Reveal in WebNative

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When working in InDesign, I often use the contextual menu commands to reveal the location of an asset in Finder or Bridge. However, I often found myself wanting to “Reveal in Webnative” so I could use the “Show Linked Files” button to display which layouts use a particular image or logo. This would [...]

Hiring: Global Digital Asset Librarian, NYC

Enfatico, a dynamic new advertising agency, is currently seeking a Global Digital Asset Librarian. See http://tbe.taleo.net/NA1/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=ENFATICO&cws=1&rid=352 for more details.

New User Poll: Which Features Are You Most Looking Forward To in Xinet’s Next Release?

In our Polls section on the left, we’ve posted a new question for the coming week:

Which features planned for Xinet’s next software release are you most looking forward to using?

You may choose up to three of the following features:

Unified GUI
Annotations
Configurable and fast index creation
Previews of Office 2007 and 2008 documents
Streaming video previews
Video reel building

We’ll leave [...]

Word on the Street: [...] How to Upgrade to Mac OS X 10.5.7 on Portal Servers

Update, May 20: Please see Comments to this posting for Xinet’s advice on this.

Update, May 21: Let’s bring Xinet’s reply up to the top here so everyone has the information they need:

Statement from Xinet on OS X 10.5.7 and Portal incompatibility

Apple’s Mac OS X version 10.5.7 updates Apache. It includes a 64 bit version of [...]

Xinet Administrators

I’m interested to hear from the XUG community about who manages and administers Xinet software in your respective companies.  Does existing IT staff typically take on Xinet admin responsibilities? Is there a specific workflow coordinator that works with IT and relevant departments? Is administration distributed between several departments or coordinators? Does Xinet run itself without [...]