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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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Category Archives: RoadSound 
RoadSound : Imminent Relaunch + FindMeOn upgrades.
Short and sweet – the site is being relaunched! RoadSound was in private alpha from February->April 2006. On April 5th the site was unveiled as a public alpha. In June 2006, the site was taken offline to devote fulltime work [...]
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Patents! Patents! Patents!
As of today, FindMeOn and RoadSound are both patent pending. I’m completely ecstatic to announce this –- I’ve been working with my lawyers for several months on this task, and its just great to finally say the papers are filed. [...]
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