Mobile search and advertising solutions provider Jumptap celebrated the opening of their New York office with a rooftop party at 230 5th.

Will location based services go the way of the internet fridge? The question was raised during Friday’s Focus on Locus conference at Columbia University.

At a party last night at For Your Imagination CEO Paul Kontonis introduced ‘what you’re gonna see available to advertisers in the Fall’.

New in the line-up of the web video production company is Glampede, a fashionista network launching September 1st.

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Location, geospatial data, looks set to drive the next phase of the web. What’s holding up the arrival of the geoweb will be the topic of discussion at Friday’s Focus on Locus symposium at Columbia University.

The conference coincides with the market debut of the GPS-enabled iPhone 3G.

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Drop.io last Thursday hosted a party at their new Dumbo office with Allen Stern (CenterNetworks) and RRE Ventures. Founder Sam Lessin explains.

Independent ad agency Woods Witt Dealy & Sons invited the ‘outcasts, exiles and undesirables’ of the New York ad world to Cha-Cha’s on Coney Island for a Wrath of Cannes party. VirtualDrinkingBuddy took home the Grand Coney.

Wakozi provides online access to delivery services of 45 Manhattan stores. Ten more will be added in the next two weeks and the startup is eyeing expansion into the Hamptons.

Founder Robert Rizzo will present Wakozi tonight at the Web2NewYork networking party at Gallery Bar.

Video production veterans Len Sitomer and Adam Mosston have developed an internet-based process to simplify rough cut editing. Mosston introduces the PortalVideo solution in this promo video.

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The Advertising 2.0 conference was one of the central events of Internet Week New York. Mochila CEO Keith McAllister participated in a panel on Publishing 2.0 and ‘re-imagining of the newspaper and magazine industries’.