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5 unusual facts about Shawn Fanning


Fernando Mastrangelo

Currently, Mastrangelo is at work on Al One (2010-) where he is collaborating with Napster founder Shawn Fanning on a sculptural installation addressing the increasing complexities of social networking.

John Fanning

John Fanning (born December 21, 1963) is an Internet and technology investor and entrepreneur who was a co-founder in 1999 of Napster, an Internet file-sharing service focused on music files that was invented by his nephew Shawn Fanning, along with Sean Parker and Jordan Ritter.

Shawn Fanning

ValleyWag wrote an article that Fanning had long left Snocap and began to work on another venture, Rupture.

In December 2006, Fanning developed Rupture, a social networking tool designed to handle the task of publishing gamers' individual profiles to a communal space and facilitating communication between World of Warcraft players.

University of San Francisco International Business Plan Competition

2004's Competition drew 25 teams from around the world with an equally impressive panel of judges (e.g. Shawn Fanning), and was featured in SF Chronicle in three separate SFChronicle articles.


Metallica v. Napster, Inc.

Napster was a pioneering peer-to-peer file sharing Internet service, founded by Shawn Fanning, that emphasized sharing digitally encoded music as MP3 audio files.


see also

Kroogi

Kroogi was founded in 2007 by Miro Sarbaev, a director at Liquid Audio as well as Shawn Fanning’s Napster and SNOCAP.