Online startup aims to improve patent quality

A new startup company wants to have a say in the high-stakes patent disputes that loom over many industries.

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Program turns to online masses to improve patents

Some of the biggest players in the technology industry complain that the U.S. patent system is broken — putting too many patents of dubious merit in the hands of people who can use them to drag companies and other inventors to court.

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Researchers Turn Web Blather to Books

A few simple keystrokes may soon turn blather into books. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered a way to enlist people across the globe to help digitize books every time they solve the simple distorted word puzzles commonly used to register at Web sites or buy things online.

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Web 2.0 and the Workplace of Tomorrow - Revisited

In 2007, I was commissioned by a Fortune 100 company to perform an analysis of their company's operations and suggest means by which they could become leaner and more efficient.

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Google Maps been steadily crowdsourcing information from users and authoritative sources that who can share detailed information about the changes in the physical world, such as new roads, water bodies and more.

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Dinosaur fossils have been dug out for a couple of centuries now. They have been cleaned up and mounted in museums and described in papers and monographs.

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Some people just can't get rid of their acne, or chronic pain, or psoriasis, no matter what treatment their doctor recommends.

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The buzz over MakerBot, the budget 3D Printer is clearly intense. Sufficiently intense that demand for their amazing device has almost outstripped their manufacturing capacity.

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When she headed the Huffington Post's "OfftheBus" project, Amanda Michel led a nationwide team of citizen reporters as they looked into stories of the 2008 presidential election that weren't covered by the media.

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Okay, question time: Imagine you're a major national newspaper whose crosstown archrival has somehow obtained two million pages of explosive documents that outed your country's biggest political scandal of the decade.

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Will V.P. Biden, the overseer for the implementation of the stimulus package, answer Oversight Chairman Towns (D-NY) concern for establishing a standard for tracking the stimulus money? Recovery.gov is not a usable database, Recovery.org , a private sector website is usable.

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The only complete dataset of bird migration patterns in North America is trapped in a basement — and it's going to take the power of crowdsourcing to free it.

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Former Sex.Com owner Gary Kremen kicked in $50K to help jumpstart a crowdsourcing product that will help lovers of adult imagery blackball the purveyors of violent and otherwise disgusting porn.

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There is a new common symptom of the flu, in addition to the usual aches, coughs, fevers and sore throats. Turns out a lot of ailing Americans enter phrases like "flu symptoms" into Google and other search engines before they call their doctor.

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NPR has asked for debate watchers to help them fact check statements made in tonight's debate via twitter.It will be interesting to be able to compare information in real time.

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Saysme.tv didn't invent the loudmouth, but, as the company's logo indicates, it sure hopes to sell him a megaphone.

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When Sharon Greenspan went on a cross-country trip last year, she made sure to take photos of the restaurants she liked and to keep the menus.

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If it successfully opens, Elements will be the first "crowdsourced" restaurant, conceived and developed by an open community of experts and interested parties.

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Through the Internet, hundreds try to unlock meaning of mysterious missive

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They may be teenagers posting videos of themselves dancing like Soulja Boy, programmers messing around with Twitter's tools to create cool new applications or aspiring game developers who want to create the next big thing.

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"In many respects, worldsourcing is both a response to and the product of the forces of globalization - its catalysts - which are causing massive macro- and socio-economic shifts in the global business and consumer landscape. ...

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But the article's author misappropriates the logic of a Web explained in further detail as moving from chaotic to increasingly more intelligible. The rise of smart, and the decline of stupid, in other words.

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Crowdsourcing may work for Wikipedia, but few commercial companies have figured out how to make it work for them. The basic concept is to get outsiders, preferably customers, to swarm together to design a product or complete some other project.

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In a tight race, the Democratic Party's pick for presidential candidate could be decided by superdelegates -- 795 party insiders who are free to vote for anybody they want at the party's national convention.

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Citizen Journalism: Should Professional Journalists Disappear?, and a Model for the Future

Newsvine is dedicated to well-researched, thought out, and written articles, and meaningful discussion. We pride ourselves on the quality of our writing and discussions.

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But Mr. Malda could not help using the discussion about Idle to address problems at Digg, and what he sees as the flaws of the community news model.

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The Library of Congress, in partnership with Flickr, is opening up their photo archives for tagging by the public. This project will allow greater access to the library's extensive archive by using the power of "crowdsourcing" to better document these important images.

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Where did the words "loo" and "flip-flop" originate? How did the name Gordon Bennett come to be used as an expression of exasperation. And who came up with the term "wazzock"?

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