Video: Loopt's Sam Altman Gives “One Year Update” At SXSW 2011

Jay Donovan

By night, Jay writes for TechCrunch and has been contributing to the blog since 2009. By day, he manages Digital Strategy for Alliance Data. Prior to that, he held Art Director and Designer jobs at GSW Worldwide and Resource Interactive leading interaction design and mobile prototype projects. You can reach reach him at jaydonovan at crunchgear dot com. → Learn More

Wednesday, March 16th, 2011

While there may not have been a cohesive theme to this year’s SXSW Interactive Conference in the way Location Based Services seemed to dominate SXSWi 2010, it’s important to note that many of these location-oriented apps and services are still around and flourishing. I took the opportunity to reach out to Sam Altman, founder of Loopt, and pick his brain about how things have changed for his company since we last spoke in 2010. Video below.

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