The new website Verifiable is yet another contender in the now seemingly crowded social data visualization area, which include other free services like  Many Eyes, Swivel, iCharts, Trendrr, Widgenie, Track-n-Graph and Timetric. The goal of Verifiable is to “democratize data” as it allows to easily upload data, visualize it, join it with other data, and allows “the world” to interact with it.

via Verifiable: Upload, Visualize and Share your Data Online – information aesthetics.

So here are the two pillars of the model, as I see it emerging: You build your business based on sharing scarce resources in a time when your customers have less money, and you dedicate your business to serve a movement where sharing comes easily.

Then you build your revenue model to reduce financial and environmental costs for your customers (individual and collectively) while increasing your margins as a provider. The more you focus on your mission, the truer you are to your community’s mission, and the higher your margins. That’s the model that makes sense to me these days.

This is the Dreamfish model.  We add a little more to it; by helping people share while they work, we help them be more effective and more happy as they work, as well.

via Photochaining.

1. From the desktop, select System > About Ubuntu. Look at the top of the text for the sentence that starts, “Thank you for your interest in Ubuntu….”  The rest of the sentence describes the version details.  (This is broken on my system, which is why I ended up looking for other ways.)

2. From the desktop, select System > Administration > System Monitor. Click the “System” tab.  This is comprehensive, and worked great.

3. From a terminal, use the command:

lsb_release -a

4. From a terminal, use the command:

cat /etc/issue

Related: To print the kernel version use the command:

uname -a

It came out pretty good, I think – it looks like a good representation of my followers.

Tip: the placement of particular words is random.  If you don’t like the way the words are arranged when you try it, reload the page to change the arrangement.

It’s wrenching and uncomfortable, because, well, “that is what real revolutions are like.”

There are a number of web sites that will flip your text, but I wanted to point out the original: David Faden’s Flip. David got the idea from Philip Newton’s post, ¿ʇı̣ əsnqɐ ʇ,uɐɔ noʎ ɟı̣ əpoɔı̣un sı̣ pooɓ ʇɐɥʍ. Philip in turn credits the idea to Mark Shoulson and his post to the qalam group.

FileFormat.info has extended the mapping to include upper-case letters and some numbers: Unicode Upside-Down Mapping, which Marcel Grünauer included in Perl’s Text::UpsideDown.

With Tento’s Eye Angle Library, Amy Reeder Hadley has created a reference chart of eyes sketched from 30 different angles, along with an in-depth description of the subtleties of the eye’s appearance in each view.

[The] five pillars of ecommerce that make up the CEF:

1. Selection
2. Value
3. Ease of use
4. Trust
5. Merchandising

[F]or a retailer of any size to be successful, they need to decide what their strategy is for each of these areas, stick to the strategy and let buyers know what that strategy is. In many ways these decisions embody the retailers brand and how they are perceived by their customers.

from eBay Strategies: Episode II – Introducing the ChannelAdvisor Ecommerce Framework (CEF).

Mac OS X:

• Skitch
• Jing

Linux (Ubuntu/Gnome):

• GIMP – File > Create > Screenshot (or File > Acquire > Screenshot)
• scrot
• import (ImageMagick)

Windows:

• Jing

More lists:

• How to Take a Screenshot in Linux (Ubuntu)
• How to choose the right screenshot program
• Taking a Screenshot
• OSX Screenshot Showdown – Jing vs Skitch