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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: Social Media 
Data Sportability
It’s nice to see everyone joining the portability and open standards bandwagon, and with such breakneck speed. It’s also great to see a complete 180° turn for many people involved — it wasn’t too long ago that many of the [...]
US Attorney Charges Lori Drew? Yay!
Lori Drew, aka the most evil woman alive, was recently charged by the US Attorney’s office in LA. Drew created the persona of a fake teenage boy on MySpace to bait and bulley her teenage daughter’s ex-best-friend. The friend in [...]
DataPortability Podcast #5 Post-Chat Wrap-Up
Trent Adams and Steve Greenberg of the DataPortability Group were awesome enough to invite me to chat on their weekly DataPortability podcast. You can listen to it here: http://www.mediaslate.org/wp/2008/04/25/dataportability-in-motion-podcast-episode-5/ We hit the specifics of the findmeon/opensn technology — and our [...]