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Destructuring.net belongs to Jonathan Vanasco. I'm a technology and advertising professional who tends to work around exciting topics like media, music, art and startups.
Some of the things I've done include: inventing one of the earliest technologies for decentralized social networking, and social media indexing for behavioral analytics / media buying; online strategy for a few labels the music industry, working on countless branding + advertising initiatives for large companies.
At the 2011 Digital Media Summit hosted by Harvard Business School and the Committee for Concerned Journalists, I shut down [insert name here]'s line of reasoning over analog dollars vs digital pennies as the only person in the room who noted the obvious -- Apple was winning with iTunes because they made it much easier to legally buy media than to steal it.
I am actively consult to media companies, and am involved with a handful of startups in the NYC area.
I most recently ran Technology and Product at IAC's Daily Beast, and worked on the merger with Newsweek.
I manage the IP Portfolio and R&D activity of FindMeOn.
One of my companies sells limited editions of contemporary fine art online @ ArtWeLove.com.
Random thoughts are on this blog. Links to my various web-presences are below.
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- What a Product Manager Is and Isn’t, and Why You Should Probably Stop Trying to Hire One.
- Dreamhost UX Creates Security Flaw
- IMPORTANT – There’s a bug with Google that may affect the EFF/BoingBoing instructions to remove your web history
- Want to win? Make it easier, not harder.
- Facebook Product Quirks, Part 1
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Category Archives: Heard 
DJ Rupture – Soot
I think i heard a mix in there from L’il Kim to Oval. Rating: 3/3 AMZN:
Spoon – Girls Can Tell
It doesn’t get more rock and roll than this. Or does it? Rating: 3/3 AMZN:
Spoon – Telephono
I should have listened to this more in high school and college. I was an idiot then. Rating: 3/3 AMZN:
Mary Timony – The Golden Dove
Sounds similar to Helium, and I think I can hear Ash Bowie playing some polvo in the background. Rating: 2/3 AMZN:
Koop – A Waltz for Koop
The most 60′s sounding 2000′s record. Rating: 3/3 AMZN:
Arto Lindsay – Invoke
Acoustical guitar from Brazil – warm, inviting, soothing. Rating: 3/3 AMZN:
Otto – Condom Black
Brazilian music isn’t just trendy, its amazing. Rating: 3/3 AMZN:
Various Artists – New Jazz Deluxe
I can’t stop listening to ‘new jazz’ / ‘nu jazz’ / ‘jazz house’ / whatever you want to call it. This compilation is one of the reasons why. Rating: 3/3 AMZN:
Fila Brazilia – Jump Leads
Its a little too R&B… still with their trademark grooves and quirkiness though Rating: 2/3 AMZN:
90 Day Men – To Everybody
My first pick at best album of 2002, followed closely by The Notwist’s Neon Golden. 90 Day Men used to sound like every other chicago band: boring and albini overpowered. Not to say they weren’t good — they were just [...]