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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 handful of labels in the music industry, and 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 advise a handful of publishing & advertising startups in the NYC area.
One of my companies sells limited editions of contemporary fine art online @ ArtWeLove.com.
I manage the IP Portfolio and R&D activity of FindMeOn.
I recently ran Technology and Product at IAC's Daily Beast, and worked on the merger with Newsweek ; and before that I ran Engineering and Product for Event Tech Labs who made RFID based access control and loyalty programs.
Random thoughts are on this blog. Links to my various web-presences are below.
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Category Archives: SwfObject 
The Geoff Stearns Fan Club + iPhone = GREAT
Belonging to the Geoff Stearns Fan Club has its privileges. My BIGGEST issue with the iPhone thus far has now been solved — all thanks to Geoff! YouTube had not yet converted the Space Lovers video to h.264 yet. For [...]
YouTube has customizable skins, nice work Geoff !
Good friend & drinking buddy Geoff Stearns , previously responsible for YouTube working in the first place (for which they haven’t given him 4 million dollars yet !!!) , and recent migrant to SanFrancisco to officially work for GooTube has [...]
Flattery will get you everywhere
I just saw a youtube video that uses the same ‘hack’ around myspace’s lockdown of widgets using the new allownetworking parameter in flash embeds — the widget has a failover that does a screen dim with a copy-paste section for [...]
Geoff Stearns #1 , SuperGreg #2 — YouTube 1.65bn
A good friend of mine by the name of Geoff Stearns is responsible for a little open source ‘thing’ called SwfObject. Here’s a little history about it: SwfObject used by just about everyone to embed swf media on websites. When [...]