Shawn Fanning

Found 11 thoughts of Shawn Fanning

He said this has the potential to be the first broadband killer application, and it has sort of become the truth because obviously it's so bandwidth intensive. I mean, it has been an issue.

I think in terms of the work we're doing now a lot of the UI cleanup... I see it getting much prettier.

I was at Northeastern University playing with the idea and getting feedback from my roommates, and then started drafting a really basic design idea.

I think then, when we started receiving the first of the user feedback, feedback from people that I had not specifically told about it, but had spread from friend to friend and then they were giving us feedback.

I think it's pretty obvious to most people that Napster is not media specific, but I could see a system like Napster evolving into something that allows users to locate and retrieve different types of data other than just MP3s or audio files.

I understood an idea like this could become popular, but at the same time I didn't think it was my implementation that would be so widely used.

Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design.

It's been all over the press, and schools are deciding to shut it down. We released a public announcement saying that we had some potential solutions that we were working with, and once we had something concrete we would start implementing it and approach schools.

Napster works because people who love music share and participate.

There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent solution to the reliability issues with existing search engines.

But I just really think there is a natural extension into other types of media because it's an excellent system for reliably locating and retrieving content.