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Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight Leads to Crowdsourcing Search Party

Satellite imaging company DigitalGlobe is posting photos of the sea where Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is likely to have gone down and asking for the public’s help to comb through them. Its pictures map thousands of square miles, prompting a crowdsourcing effort to scour the open water for evidence.

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Beth Romanik
Marblar Matches Ivory Tower Research and Entrepreneurs

Do you have the big idea for the next big thing? What’s holding you back? If it’s the research and development, there’s now a chance your idea might make it to market—and potentially earn royalties—by using previously patented technology.

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Pamela Rentz
Free Mobile Device Testing Labs Add to Culture of Sharing

The excitement that comes with each new mobile device launch brings with it one more device for developers and testers to have to weigh the costs of running their mobile applications on, to make sure they're compatible. Could free, open device labs solve that problem? Maybe—if we all chip in.

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Noel Wurst
Quality Assurance for Crowdsourced Content

Crowdsourcing in software quality assurance is especially handy in leveraging a community’s skills and knowledge as end users, their domain expertise, and their testing background. Rajini Bharath highlights the core approaches and best practices when generating and verifying crowdsourced content.

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Rajini Padmanaban