Mr. Opel, who died Thursday at age 86, developed the marketing effort for the PC, and helped lead an automated-manufacturing initiative. Revenue and profits skyrocketed for IBM.

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Here are the obituaries that tell the story of his life from a dozen publications from around the world:

• WSJ: Apple’s Steve Jobs is Dead
• Bloomberg: Steve Jobs, Who Built World’s Most Valuable Technology Company, Dies at 56
• Reuters: A world without Steve Jobs
• AP: The World-Changer: Steve Jobs knew what he wanted
• ThisIsMyNext: Steve Jobs: 1955-2011
• Los Angeles Times: Steve Jobs dies; Apple’s co-founder transformed computers and culture
• BoingBoing: Steve Jobs has died
• People: Steve Jobs, Apple’s Visionary, Dies
• The Guardian: Steve Jobs obituary
• The New York Times: Steve Jobs, Apple’s Visionary, Dies at 56
• The Financial Times: Apple: Jobs done but magic lingers
• PCWorld: Apple Chairman Steve Jobs Dead at 56
• The Economist: Steve Jobs
• Wired: Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
• Bloomberg BusinessWeek: Steve Jobs Departs a World He Helped Transform

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The money was actually raised last fall in two rounds after the company completed the Y Combinator program, but for whatever reason it’s been kept under wraps. NetworkEffect took the opportunity to talk with co-founder Rudy Adler about his year-old start-up this week.

“The Internet was missing a past tense,” is Adler’s quip to explain the motivation for 1000Memories. The site offers a central place for mourners to contribute pictures, stories and the like, with the promise of becoming a permanent collaborative obituary and eulogy.

Sites like Facebook don’t have a great way of dealing with people who pass away, because they are designed for living participants, Adler said. Creating accounts for dead people can be awkward, but perhaps less so on a dedicated, nicely designed site.

Future premium products for 1000Memories may include custom domains, physical memory books, personalized designs and additional storage, Adler said. The company currently helps its users do things like rip and post DVDs, in part because they are often much older and less tech savvy than the average social media user.

1000Memories recently launched a groups feature that was used to memorialize those killed in the Egyptian protests. It went viral, with more than 400,000 page views, Adler said.

In addition to Greylock, participants in the $2.5 million Series A round included Caterina Fake, Ron Conway, Keith Rabois, Mike Maples, Paul Buchheit and Chris Sacca. It came through just a couple of months after 1000Memories had raised an angel round worth $500,000.

That’s because some of us can’t keep our “Airplane!” quotes straight. And that’s understandable! Nielsen sorta looked like co-star Peter Graves, and Graves died this year, too.

So here’s a refresher course:

Here’s the Nielsen line most of you remember:

And here’s the one from Graves:

But now you want more Nielsen, right? OK. Here’s some of his best stuff from from “Airplane!” and “The Naked Gun.”

RIP.

His funeral is today at 10:30 a.m. at Saint Raymond Catholic Church in Menlo Park.

A “Friends of Mike Homer” Facebook group page has also been created, with lots of great memories posted on its wall.

In 2007, Homer (pictured here with Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen) was diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

A rare, neurodegenerative “prion” disease, which in Homer’s case occurred sporadically rather than via infection (the well-known variant that occurs in animals is called mad cow disease), CJD’s incidence is one case in a million annually, and few survive beyond a year after exhibiting symptoms.

There is no known cure for CJD, and treatments have been few. That might change, given the push that Homer, his family and friends had been making to accelerate the pace of discovery for treatments and a cure by raising many millions of dollars for the cause and pushing for even more aggressive development.

Here is the obituary that the Homer family wrote:

Michael (Mike) J. Homer: February 24, 1958-February 1, 2009

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Creuzfeldt-Jakob Disease Foundation at www.cjdfoundation.org.