Techmeme: The Genius of Jobs (Walter Isaacson/New York Times)

9:25 PM ET, October 30, 2011

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Mona Simpson / New York Times:

A Sister's Eulogy for Steve Jobs — I grew up as an only child, with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif. I hoped he would be rich and kind and would come into our lives (and our not yet furnished apartment) and help us.

Walter Isaacson / New York Times:

The Genius of Jobs — ONE of the questions I wrestled with when writing about Steve Jobs was how smart he was. On the surface, this should not have been much of an issue. You'd assume the obvious answer was: he was really, really smart. Maybe even worth three or four reallys.

Discussion: CNET News and Om.Is.Me

Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:

Steve's Bio: A Personal Perspective — Let me jump to the conclusion: This is an extraordinary book on many levels: informative, entertaining often, insightful, sympathetic but not indulgent; it rises to its unusual subject and manages to render its complexity in a straightforward manner that attests to the biographer's talent.

Discussion: The Next Web

Ken Peters / @brand_big:

According to his sister, who was present, Steve Jobs' last words were, “Oh wow, oh wow, oh wow” as he stared past his children. Oh, wow.

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Facebook's Zuckerberg: If I Were Starting A Company Now, I Would Have Stayed In Boston — Yesterday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at Y Combinator's Startup School in a candid interview with Y Combinator Partner Jessica Livingston.

Discussion: CNET News, Business Insider, Damien Mulley and Social Markets, Thanks:leenarao

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple acquired mind-blowing 3D mapping company C3 Technologies, looking to take iOS Maps to the next level — A 3D model of Las Vegas Strip created by Apple purchased C3 — Since the original iPhone's debut in 2007, Apple's iOS devices have made use of an Apple-built Google Maps application …

Henry Blodget / Business Insider:

ATTENTION APPLE FANS: Samsung Blowing Past Apple To Become The Biggest Smartphone Vendor Is Not Good News — For the past couple of years, Apple fans have responded to the Android threat with an evolving series of arguments about why Android isn't a threat:

Discussion: parislemon

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / Open Source Blog:

Ubuntu Linux heads to smartphones, tablets, and smart TVs. — Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical & Ubuntu — Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, will announce at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando, FL, that they will be taking Ubuntu Linux to smartphones, tablets, and smart TVs.

Discussion: Ars Technica and Geek News Central

Fred / A VC:

Protecting The Safe Harbors Of The DMCA And Protecting Jobs — My partner Brad and I spent Thursday in DC along with a bunch of entrepreneurs and VCs. We talked to dozens of our elected officials about an issue that is very concerning to us, protecting the safe harbors of the DMCA.

Discussion: Feld Thoughts and rc3.org

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Rep. Blackburn, Co-Sponsor Of E-PARASITE, Explains Why Regulating The Internet Is Terrible

Discussion: TorrentFreak and Electronic Frontier Foundation

New York Times:

Luck Is Just the Spark for Business Giants — BETTER to be lucky than good, the adage goes. — And maybe that's true — if you just want to be merely good, not much better than average. But what if you want to build or do something great? And what if you want to do so in today's unstable and unpredictable world?

Discussion: GeekWire

Charles Arthur / Guardian:

iPhone 4S battery life problems: bug in location services suspected — User tests suggest that bug in iOS 5 may be polling mobile mast data too frequently and running down battery — A flaw in Apple's location services system in its new iOS 5 software is increasingly suspected of being the cause …

Tomio Geron / Social Markets:

Why Zynga's Mark Pincus Tried To Buy CNet [Startup School] — Zynga's Mark Pincus. Photo Credit: Robert Scoble — Founding Zynga was a second option for Mark Pincus while he was trying to do something else entirely: acquire the technology website CNet.com.

Thanks:forbestech

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