Xinet Users Group

XUG Status Update

Joel Friedman — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:50:07 +0000

Note to visitors: Xinet Users Group, Inc., ceased operations in the second half of 2009 due to lack of corporate funding. This website remains up for now as a convenience to folks who would like to use its forum features, but it is not an official communications organ of Xinet Users Group, Inc., nor is [...]

Xinet Introduces Video 3.0 for WebNative Suite

Joel Friedman — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:36:08 +0000

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

Joel Friedman — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:31:59 +0000

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, [...]

You Need a DAM Person to Manage a DAM System

Joel Friedman — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:39:47 +0000

At the Henry Stewart DAM Conference in New York last week, Henrik de Gyor spoke about his role as Digital Asset Manager at K12, Inc., in Herndon, Virginia (USA). On his own blog, Henrik lists these questions management must answer when implementing a DAM System:

Who is driving the progress of DAM? Who is tracking progress, measuring [...]

European IT Website Reviews WebNative

Joel Friedman — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:41:33 +0000

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

Joel Friedman — Sun, 31 May 2009 17:21:29 +0000

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

dwirch — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:07:07 +0000

Promoted from Comments

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 [...]

How does metadata transfer to a new asset?

dentistw — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:05:00 +0000

Promoted from WebNative open thread

If you create a new asset from an existing asset, how do you get the metadata to follow into the new asset? I’m using Triple Triangle’s InDesign extensions to track job information: art director, copywriter, etc. This comes from our job management system and populates SLUG fields and XMP data fields [...]

Hiring: Global Digital Asset Librarian, NYC

tonygill99 — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:57:44 +0000

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?

Joel Friedman — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:02:18 +0000

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 [...]