Justin Frankel
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Title | Founder of Cockos |
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Justin Frankel (born 1978) is an American
In 2002, he was named in the
Early life
Justin Frankel was born in 1978 and grew up in Sedona, Arizona. Frankel had an aptitude for computers at an early age. His skill eventually led him to running the student computer network of Verde Valley School, which he attended, as well as writing an email application for the students.
Winamp
After graduating high school with a 3.9
Frankel, along with
Sale of Nullsoft to AOL
In June 1999
AOL
On March 14, 2000, Frankel and Nullsoft colleague Tom Pepper released gnutella, a public peer-to-peer file-sharing application, using Nullsoft's corporate web servers, without AOL's knowledge. Gnutella was a new peer-to-peer file-sharing system like the original Napster system, which was used by users to share their MP3 collections with everyone who ran a Napster client. Unlike Napster, however, gnutella allowed users to share any type of file, not just MP3s. It also did not have the single point of failure that Napster had: centralized servers that indexed where all the shared content was stored. Whereas Napster could be (and was) shut off just by turning off the centralized index servers owned by Napster, gnutella did not rely on any centralized servers to find out what users had what content, so once a gnutella network was created, it could not be shut off.
Since AOL was at the time merging with
AOL watched Frankel very closely after that, taking down other projects that he tried to release to the public, such as an MP3
On December 9, 2003 AOL shut down Nullsoft's San Francisco offices and laid off 450 employees.[5]
Frankel announced his resignation from AOL on January 22, 2004 on his blog, stating "Won't repeat it here (in two words: I've resigned). So begins chapter 3... or something cliché/poetic there. Or wait, does I've count as a single word? ha ha."
Post-AOL
Some of Frankel's current projects in development are a programmable effects processor called
Under his new company, Cockos, he has been developing REAPER, a Digital audio workstation for Microsoft Windows, MacOS, and Linux.
References
- Technology Review. 2002. Retrieved August 16, 2011.
- ^ "Winamp's woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself". Ars Technica. June 24, 2012.
- ^ Beth Lipton Krigel (June 1, 1999). "AOL buys Spinner, Nullsoft for $400 million". CNet News. Archived from the original on July 28, 2012. Retrieved 2007-05-04.
- Securities and Exchange Commission. September 21, 1999.
- ^ Paul Festa (December 9, 2003). "AOL lays off 450 California employees". CNET.
External links
- (c[a,o]s[a,o][s] de justin), Justin Frankel's blog
- The World's Most Dangerous Geek; Interviewed by David Kushner; RollingStone.com; January 13, 2004.
- Justin Frankel Reveals Life After Winamp; Interviewed by Nate Mook, BetaNews, January 3, 2005.
- Turn Off The Internet; A site made by Steve Gedikian and Justin, as a joke.
- Interview with Justin Frankel on Winamp and the Reaper; In depth interview on the design and the history of Winamp. Digital Tools, April 2008.
- The Men Who Stole the World; By Lev Grossman, Time, November 24, 2010
- Jesusonic / EEL programming reference