Great post. It seems like there are several different interpretations of what an API-centric business model would have looked like: the "all the data in one pl

Great post. It seems like there are several different interpretations of what an API-centric business model would have looked like: the "all the data in one place" model, and the "communications bus for the internet" model. (These are not mutually exclusive, necessarily.) I always loved the idea of Twitter as a communications bus for the internet. It probably would have been very challenging to monetize (though "we have all the data" as a thing to sell isn't bad, it works well for google in a search/1.0 context because they also have all the intent and all the UI around it). It makes me wonder how much this set of decisions was driven by the amount of capital they raised and the need to demonstrate monetization. It seems like deciding the business would be ad-supported was the first step toward becoming MySpace2.0.