Steve Jobs’ final words to his family have been revealed by his Sister a month after the 56 year old tragically died on October 5, 2011, after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.

His final moments have been shared by his sister, Mona Simpson, in The New York Times, a copy of the eulogy from Steve Jobs memorial service on 16th October has also been published. Below is an extract from the New York Times.

“His breathing changed. It became severe, deliberate, purposeful. I could feel him counting his steps again, pushing farther than before.
This is what I learned: he was working at this, too. Death didn’t happen to Steve, he achieved it.
He told me, when he was saying goodbye and telling me he was sorry, so sorry we wouldn’t be able to be old together as we’d always planned, that he was going to a better place.

Dr. Fischer gave him a 50/50 chance of making it through the night.

He made it through the night, Laurene next to him on the bed sometimes jerked up when there was a longer pause between his breaths. She and I looked at each other, then he would heave a deep breath and begin again.

This had to be done. Even now, he had a stern, still handsome profile, the profile of an absolutist, a romantic. His breath indicated an arduous journey, some steep path, altitude.

He seemed to be climbing.

But with that will, that work ethic, that strength, there was also sweet Steve’s capacity for wonderment, the artist’s belief in the ideal, the still more beautiful later.

Steve’s final words, hours earlier, were monosyllables, repeated three times.”

Before embarking, he’d looked at his sister Patty, then for a long time at his children, then at his life’s partner, Laurene, and then over their shoulders past them.

Steve’s final words were: ‘Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.’

You have to wonder at the enormity and simplicity of his final words, a fitting exit from a great man.

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SEO or search engine optimisation has for a long time been tarnished with a negative undertone. As with all industries there are good and bad search engine optimisation professional, some following every rule by the book and others manipulating and using black hat techniques to gain a search engine ranking advantage. Well implemented SEO not only improves a sites search engine visibility but also improves usability and is focused on return on investment and natural organic growth.

Matt Cutts, a spokes person for Google, has publicly acknowledged the worth of well implemented SEO and finally has acknowledged that SEO is not spam. Below is the original video from Matt Cutts, it would be great to get your feedback on this, it’s great to finally have an acknowledgement of the worth of SEO.

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Google have announced that as from September 14^th 2010, trademark keywords and search terms will be allowed to be used within Adwords content and copy. In May 2009, Google adopted this policy in the US but many believed the complex UK legal system would prevent this from happening in the UK.

Since September 2009 Google have been beta testing a new version of their highly utilised keyword tool, we knew the day would come when Google would finally retire and phase out the original tool. As an announcement on the Google Adwords Blog confirmed, the original Google keyword tool will be phased out by the end of the month.

Google confirmed the tool will be removed by the 1^st September 2010, old links will be redirected to the new keyword tool and the beta label will be removed from the new version.

So if you want to remember the fun times you had researching keywords, why not revisit the old Google keyword tool one final time, before it is escorted to the Google retirement home…

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Last August Twitter announced the launch of a new location sharing feature which allowed users to tag there Tweets with their Geographical location, this was only available as part of the API, until now.
Twitter will be adding the new functionality to its website, allowing Twitter users to tag their Tweets with their location, so what does this mean? Well on the one hand the prospect of real time search results which are based on location does seem very exciting. To be able to monitor and predict trends and public opinion based on location could offer some extremely valuable data. But is this new technology opening up a “Can of Worms”, with personal security potentially at stake, will 2010 be the year of the Stalker? Luckily the new service can only be enabled by physically opting in to location sharing. This will naturally police the situation and should hopefully prevent any potential security issues with location sharing and privacy.
Quite interestingly IE and Safari Users will be disappointed as the new location feature will only work on Firefox and Google Chrome at this time.
“Let’s say I’m at my office and I hear a loud boom. It sounded serious, so I search Twitter for “boom.” Among the first results could be someone who tweeted “Boom go the fireworks!” This could be anywhere in the world. However, if that person had activated the new tweet location feature then the neighbourhood data under the tweet would read, “SoMa.”

Now I know it’s just fireworks going off in my neighbourhood. Boom! Plus, the word “SoMa” is linked to a Google map so I can explore a bit more. There are many ways location data can be useful when paired with tweets.” Taken from the official Twitter blog.

It’s an interesting new technology and we would love to hear your thoughts?
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