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I have great respect and admiration for all entrepreneurs out there including theColorfounders. I have seenthe videosand readthe interviews. In theory, Color sounds cool, its founders seem to be knowing what they are talking about and those investors that sunk 50 million into the startup can’t be crazy either. Still, I hope that one of these days I wake up and Color has just disappeared. I thought about that this last Saturday while I was out having dinner....

Businesses are investing significant financial and human resources into building theirFacebookpresence and engaging with fans. But while Facebook is undoubtedly an important marketing channel, many businesses are now grappling with how they can turn it into an effective sales channel too. One solution is to enable businesses to buy your products directly from your Facebook page. According to Compete.com, 68% of people become fans of retail pages to keep up to date on sales and promotions, so it’s a logical step to allow them to purchase products on the page too....

By Todd Feathers In 2018, the New York City Council created a task force to study the city’s use of automated decision systems (ADS). The concern: Algorithms, not just in New York but around the country, were increasingly being employed by government agencies to do everything from informing criminal sentencing and detecting unemployment fraud to prioritizing child abuse cases and distributing health benefits. And lawmakers, let alone the people governed by the automated decisions, knew little about how the calculations were being made....

It hasn’t been a week since Amazon let forth their torrent of news, dropping a new Kindle, the Kindle touch, and the Fire inone swooping event. Our own Paul Sawers compared the pre-hype of the occasion to an Apple event. When all was said and done, his statement was proven to be accurate. The technology world was forced to sit back and digest for an entire day: What has Amazon truly built, and since when has a book shipper been relevant?...

After yesterday’s rather slow news day and a frustrating moment involving my iPhone 4 crashing and wiping my entire address book clean, I settled in for a bit of stress-relieving fun online. Fortunately for me, my “stress relief” involves goofing off on social networks like Google+, Facebook and so on, which, according to my friends who think I work too much, ties in with what I write about all day here on The Next Web....