Remembering Steve Jobs. Innovator, Visonary and Technological Icon.

With the sad news of Steve Jobs recent passing I think it's fitting to pay homage to a man that has forever changed the way we communicate and interact with each other.

With a seemingly endless list of technological initiatives and breakthroughs including the global icons of: Macs, iPods,iPhones, and more recently i Pads, Jobs lead the charge for better, faster and more functional technology.

But as much as this man being an unparalleled IT genius he was quite clearly also a marketing wizard with a singular talent to interpret people's unmet needs and translate them into these amazingly advanced and yet always practical pieces of hardware art.

"Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives," Apple's board said in a statement. "The world is immeasurably better because of Steve."

Like so many wonderfully talented figures before him, Jobs died at the early at of only 56. We can only imagine what other advances and refinements he most certainly would have come up with given better health and more time.

In 2005, following the bout with cancer, Jobs delivered Stanford University's commencement speech.

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life," he said. "Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important."

I'm sure that these words fall into the realm of timeless wisdom and I know they certainly resonate with me, and perhaps you as well.

Thank you for all that you've done Steve and may your after life be as brilliant as your life on Earth. R.I.P.

And until next time, Good luck and good marketing.

Daniele.