The upcoming New York Television Festival (NYTVF) will feature a day-long digital event to recognize producers and content creators on emerging digital platforms.

Digital Day will take place on September 16. The fourth annual New York Television Festival starts September 12 at New World Stages.

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Silicon Alley returned to the Flatiron District last night with a launch party for David Rose’s new incubator “SparkSpace”. Rose Tech Ventures is looking for another name for their ‘entrepreneurial tech center’. Entrepreneur in Residence Nate Westheimer explains.

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.