Last week Apple held an event to honor the late Steve Jobs, who passed away earlier this month. The event was only for Apple employees and retail staff who watched via a private live stream. Here is a copy of the full length service. Found via bitshare.tumblr.com
Mint Foundry has created one of the best (and meta) of all Steve Jobs tributes thus far: a portrait of Apple's co-founder made entirely out of MacBook parts. It is awesome. (via geeks.thedailywh.at)
Stephen Colbert pays a sincere tribute to Steve Jobs by reliving his history of begging for (and receiving) Apple products. (via gotchamediablog.com)
Way before the iPod, iPhone or iPad; Steve Jobs was honored for his work on the Macintosh by his Apple coworkers who created a short film for him for his 30th birthday. (via bitshare.tumblr.com)
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was interviewed after he learned the news of the passing of his friend and former business partner Steve Jobs. (via reddit.com)
Culture Buzz In response to her tweet that the Westboro Baptist Church would picket Steve Jobs's funeral—sent via iPhone—Phelps thinks it's fine because the iPhone has a higher purpose. You can find me in the ER, my head just exploded.
Business Buzz Immediately after learning that Steve Jobs had passed away, Apple CEO Tim Cook wrote and forwarded the following email to his employees. It is an understated, excellent tribute to the man, and illustrates the kind of friendship to the two shared.
Business Buzz “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” When originally released in 1997, Richard Dreyfuss provided the narration for this famous ad campaign, but originally Jobs himself did it. Its message is moving already, and to hear Jobs say it makes it even more so. (via digg.com)
Culture Buzz Mike Matas, a former user interface designer at Apple, posted a series of photos of Steve Jobs testing the Mac's Photo Booth filters back in 2005. It's a nice look at the silly side of Steve. (via bestrooftalkever.com)
Tech Buzz Just moments ago, Steve Jobs' Twitter account @iSteveJobs was suspended. It now looks like this.
Apple has announced that Steve Jobs is dead. More news to come. (via apple.com)
Some troublemakers on the Internet took advantage of Wired's vulnerable image viewer software to post some misinformation about Apple's CEO. Brief panic ensues.