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Blockbuster Still Lacks a Digital Media Strategy, Ten Years Later

Dan, you are right on about Blockbuster's lack of a coherent digital strategy. Their stock has been in steady decline since 2002, and I can't even see them surviving another 5 years.

The future of the business is digital, and the real winner in the market will be someone doing something new, not a company copying someone else's work. Blockbuster has a history of doing nothing but jumping on the bandwagon after someone else has tried it.

I don't know who the winner in this space will be, but I'm pretty confident that it won't be Blockbuster.

What Can eBay Do to Close Its Amazon Gap?

Every company makes mistakes, but very few outside Detroit make them with the regularity and severity of eBay. I used to like the site, and still think it has the potential to be good (if not big), but they've screwed up every opportunity to fix it so far. I'm not optimistic about management's ability to make change.