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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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Python Fun : Upgrading to 2.7 on OSX ; Installing Mysql-Python on OSX against MAMP ( ruby gem too)
I needed to upgrade from Python 2.6 to 2.7 and ran into a few issues along the way. Learn from my encounters below. Upgrading Python Installing the new version of Python is really quick. Python.org publishes a .dmg installer that [...]
Facebook Developer Notes – Javascript SDK and Asynchronous Woes
I’m quickly prototyping something that needs to interact with Facebook’s API and got absolutely lost by all their documentation – which is plentiful, but poorly curated. I lost a full day of time trying to figure out why my code [...]
Net Neutrality
Net Neutrality is an increasingly popular topic for debate: Consumer advocates preaching about the freedom of choice; lobbyists preach about the freedom of markets; millions of people sit on the sidelines and wonder what they hell they’re talking about. While [...]
Crazy Few Weeks, Part II
I’m relieved to announce that FindMeOn’s main patent application has finally been published. Most of the concepts, images, and methods have been publicly shared over the past few years in documents and presentations – but we had opted to keep [...]
Is Facebook worth $34BN ? Reverse engineering their valuation.
I wrote the below quickly, and a friend pointed out a HUGE mistake I made in haste… the 10:1 google number is alleged to be an earnings ratio, and I based my numbers on revenue. For those that don’t know [...]
OMG! Apple is trying to patent someone’s app! [ no they're not ]
A tumblr posting just popped up on my radar about Apple trying to patent an app that is identical to one by the company Where-To [Original Posting Here] The author shows a image comparing a line drawing in Apple’s patent [...]
Don’t Get Too Excited About the LOC’s Copyright Decisions
Today the Library of Congress announced new laws ( perhaps more accurately interpretations of existing laws , as their rulings created ‘exemptions’ to the DMCA laws ) designed to strengthen the concepts of “Fair Use” in as it applies to [...]
Everyone’s talking about the need for a privacy oriented Open Source solution for an open social graph
And a lot of people are asking me “Weren’t you doing that four years ago?” Well yes, I was. In fact I still do. My company FindMeOn Open Sourced a lot of technology that enables a private and security based [...]
Facewash: The only way to fix Facebook’s abuse of privacy is to devalue their data.
Short and sweet – the only way to fix Facebook’s abuse of privacy is to devalue their data. As long as monetizable data exists, a company will try to productize it. This holds true for Facebook, as it does for [...]
Privacy Settings in Firefox vs Safari
No contest, Safari Wins. @sayrer fix pls, k thx bye.