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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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Recent Posts
- Chocolate Chip Cookies Perfected
- 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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- Startup Lessons (3)
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Category Archives: Politics 
Pissing off the left and the right in as few sentences as possible
Reading today’s news headlines, I feel the need to address some topics with a touch of common sense: The US War in Iraq: I was against it from the start, I’m against it now. But Bush and friends have completlely [...]
Janice Crouse and Carrie Gordon Earll, you are awful human beings
Mary Cheney, Dick Cheney’s daugther, is pregnant. Most people would be happy for her, but a great many aren’t — for the lone fact that she’s gay. Carrie Gordon Earll, a policy analyst for the conservative Christian ministry Focus on [...]
Transportation Safety Idiocy
There’s been a slew of craziness lately ever since Christopher Soghoian , a PhD student at the School of Informatics at Indiana University Bloomingto put a fake Boarding Pass generator online. It’s been a well documented HUGE security flaw for [...]
Defense of Marriage
Despite asserting that marriage is only “between a man and a woman”, and must be protected, every Senator who voted for the ‘Defense of Marriage’ act’s home state allows minors to marry. Minor is actually a misnomer, children would be [...]