Media Lab Introduces New Photoshop Plugin

LONGMONT, Colo. — Media Lab Inc., a provider of webpage creation technologies, announced new features and enhancements for its SiteGrinder 2 product, a plugin for Adobe Photoshop that lets designers, artists and those with no web coding expertise generate webpages directly from within Photoshop.

SiteGrinder 2 allows users to convert Photoshop designs into CSS-rich, standards-compliant webpages inside Photoshop with the click of a mouse. Pages generated by SiteGrinder 2 retain the exact look and layout of the parent Photoshop file from which they were created.

New features include 100 percent compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Macintosh Universal compatibility (PowerPC and Intel processors), full Microsoft Vista compatibility, improved support for JPEG metadata, more powerful popup menus and enhanced support for non-English language character sets...

Glenn Kaino, Co-founder, President, Uber.com

By DENNIS NISHI
Special to THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Glenn Kaino has always juggled art and technology. While running a successful Web design company throughout the dot-com years, he also cultivated a fine art career showing at galleries—including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. In 2006 he combined his careers through Uber.com, a publishing Web site for visual artists, photographers, writers and musicians. It's grown to over 500,000 unique visits a month, according to Nielson Online, and it hosts notable musicians like Gnarls Barkley and the Jonas Brothers. Writer Dennis Nishi spoke with Mr. Kaino about his career and what it's like to compete in the social-networking space.
[How I Got Here]

Q: Where did the idea for Uber come from?

A: It started in 1993. The first Web site I made out of college was called Favella.com and it was a seven person group done out of my downtown studio. It was one of the first contemporary art Web sites and the formative germ of what, ultimately, via a circuitous route, would become Uber.

Does Google Have What it Takes to Really Index Flash

I know, I know. Google's indexing Flash and Flash developers can rejoice now that their content is SEO-friendly. Sorry - I don't buy it for a second. Flash content is fundamentally different from HTML on webpage URLs and being able to parse links in the Flash code and text snippets does not make Flash search-engine friendly. I think it's great that Google's digging deeper into Flash, but I don't believe web developers should be any less wary than they've been in the past about Flash-based websites or Flash-embedded content.

And guess what - I used to be a Flash developer (prior to founding SEOmoz). I still build graphics and wireframes and content (like this demo I made (in 48hrs - last minute) for SEOmoz's PRO content) entirely in Flash. I'm not a hardcore Flash junkie or an actionscript developer anymore, but I can say with confidence that Flash ≠ a smart SEO strategy.

LOUISVILLE, Colo. -- Front Porch Digital announced today that MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom, has implemented its DIVArchive(TM) and DIVAnet(TM) solutions for a broadcast content archive management system between its network operations center in Long Island, N. Y., and its backup facility in Nashville, Tenn.

"DIVAnet leverages the core archiving and storage extension functionality of DIVArchive by enabling the intelligent linking of archives between physical facilities," said Dave Polyard, Front Porch Digital senior vice president of sales for North America.