It’s particularly this interoperability and overlap between our digital apps, services & devices that will become as second-nature as swiping a screen on a phone… which creates a whole new world of opportunity for entrepreneurs.
Let’s cut straight to the chase: advertising isn’t the right business model for Twitter. Twitter doesn’t have the scale for advertising (it has about 10% as many MAUs as Facebook) nor the ad chops (hence its low ARPU).
Online events remind me a lot of ecommerce in about 1996. The software is raw and rough around the edges, and often doesn’t work very well, though that can get fixed. But more importantly, no-one quite knows what they should be building.