We had the good fortune to talk to web type guru and long-time (mt) friend, Jason Santa Maria about Typedia — a genius “must-use” resource for anyone looking for inspiration in twenty-six characters. Interview after the jump…

We got to work with this wonder team pre-launch, and we’re proud to see GigLocator a well received new phenom. James and Miles have calmed down from the launch of their searchy live music gig machine to answer some questions regarding their vision, plans and youthful entrepreneurial spirit… Interview after the jump.

A project long in the running, we’re happy to announce Mr. Zeldman and his crew at A List Apart are officially moved over to (mt) Media Temple. This makes (mt) Media Temple the home to all of Jeffrey Zeldman’s web properties including Happy Cog and An Event Apart.

We’d Like to congratulate the A List Apart, Happy Cog and An Event Apart teams on their success evangelizing and implementing the wonders of Web Standards and beautiful, concise design.

Professional photographer, party maniac, official RVCA artist and (mt) Media Temple partner, The Cobrasnake, stopped by the (mt) outpost in Hawaii en route to Asia. (mt) Community Director Jason McVearry caught up with him at his fashion yard sale and later at Steve Aoki’s Show in Honolulu.

Since (mt) has hosted it for two years, we knew ‘07 was the biggest elfing season ever. Today, Advertising Age chimed in with a great elfyourself.com article and video showing how it’s become the all-time, record breaking, viral sensation to date.

One in 10 Americans visited elfyourself.com to make 122 million elves this holiday season (that doesn’t include what we saw for scroogeyourself.com). For (mt), it was exciting to see the stats surge and our (dpv) Nitro’s stream holiday fun for all (we’ll have a case study online soon).

We’d like to say thanks to the teams at Office Max, Toy and the wizards at EVB for choosing (mt) as their trusted hosting provider. For two years in a row, it’s been a pleasure working with them and we’re proud to be a part of internet history.

Sydney, Sao Paulo, Tokyo, Mexico City, Barcelona, Johannesburg, and London rejoice. We have local numbers for you to contact us.

We based this round of numbers on customer density in Australia, Brazil, Japan, Mexico, Spain, South Africa and the UK. But, if you think we should have more, let us know in the comments below!

As we round out the biggest (mt) year to date, we wanted you to know about our last few events! The first one is FITC Hollywood (Oct 22-23). If you haven’t got your tickets for FITC Hollywood yet, be sure to pick those up before they sell out. We’ll be throwing a party for the event on October 23rd at Little Temple in Silver Lake. If you’re in LA, stop by and have a drink on us. RSVP instructions below.

Following FITC, our Lead Technologist, Chris Lea, will be speaking at Startup LA (Oct. 26th) on the importance of scalability for your start up venture. If you’re thinking about starting up a site or app, this is a great place to learn what it takes.

Ryan Carson is coming to the US to blow us away in NYC at his Future of Web Design Conference (Nov. 7-8). (mt) Media Temple will be blowing out the season with the closing party at Rebel NYC! The featured acts are Kerouac, Alex English and 33HZ. If you’re an NYC (mt) client, we’ll have a special limited guest list so you can attend.

To RSVP for an upcoming party, Email sdesmet at mediatemple.net with either “NYC (mt) party” or “LA (mt) Party” in the subject and we’ll do our best to get you on the list!

(mt) would like everyone to welcome their new neighbors; Django.

They’re purveyors of an incredible framework, have excellent musical taste, and are all-around great guys with a dedicated tribe. (mt) is über excited to provide them a fast, new, and spacious, online home. We, like many of you, want Django to grow and this was a perfect opportunity for (mt) to help.

We’ve also posted new beta information, and a sign-up(!), for our eagerly anticipated (mt) Django GridContainer.

So watch ya waiting for? Head over to (mt) labs right now and get your name in the hat.

We are fortunate here at (mt) that a lot of cool things are being served from within our network daily. One such project that has recently moved over is the über-cool, super-popular SlideShowPro from Dominey Design. According to founder Todd Dominey:

When the time came to move our business from a shared hosting environment to a dedicated space, the first company we thought of was Media Temple. Considering the e-commerce nature of our site, any downtime would have constituted lost revenue, so moving our entire operation was hardly a small task. Media Temple was there for us, and helped make it happen without skipping a beat. Couldn’t be more pleased.

We’ve been fans of the excellent work coming from Dominey Design for some time now and are excited to have this hosted with us. SlideShowPro is housed on one of our (dv) Dedicated-Virtual servers.

(mt) partner Nick Finck (Digital Web Magazine) and his friends at Blueflavor (also a client) have launched a very cool iPhone app called Leaflets. It looks like we’re not the only ones who like it, Mike at Techcrunch called Leaflets a “Must Have” app after seeing a demo from Mike Davidson at Newsvine.

Putting aside how cool this app is, we saw this round robin of 4 (mt) users and thought all of our hardworking clients developing iPhone apps deserve a mention. So, if you’re working on one, drop us a line in the comments below and we’ll do a nice big roundup post featuring your iPhone apps.