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Through November 14th, you can grab 7 licenses of SmartBear's CodeReviewer for $7 bucks a pop. All of the money raised through the program will go to charities that focus on helping children, animals and the environment.

Normally, SmartBear charges $289 per seat for its Web-based tool for peer code reviews. But to help charity, and raise awareness of its software, the company is offering a 97.5% discount on its software. The money goes to three charities, divided equally:

A team of long-time leaders of the Internet community have come together behind Dan Whaley, one of the forefathers of contemporary search engines, to build a system called Hypothes.is: an "open-source Internet platform to crowdsource peer-review on information everywhere."

It's a peer review system to check, verify and critique content all over the Web - and beyond. "Improving the credibility of the information we consume is humanity's grandest challenge," Whaley says. Topic experts will be enlisted in addition to crowdsourcing, a reputation system, browser plug-ins and APIs are on the roadmap and all the data will be stored at the Internet Archive. It sounds incredible, and it's raising money on Kickstarter right now. The goal is for a prototype to be released in the first half of next year.

Anyone who has scanned the comments at Perez Hilton would understandably be puzzled by the idea of relying on blog readers to peer review a book. The idea seems especially ludicrous if the book is being published by the MIT Press. But as we're well aware here at ReadWriteWeb, some blogs do have very intelligent readers (*wink, wink, nudge, nudge*). Author Noah Wardrip-Fruin, an assistant professor of communication at the University of California at San Diego, thinks so too, which is why he is calling on his blog's readers to peer review his new book.