Mona Simpson is an op-ed contributor for the New York Times, a novelist, an English professor at UCLA, and she is the biological sister of the late Steve Jobs. On October 16, 2011 Mona Simpson delivered a eulogy for her brother at his memorial service at the Memorial Church of Stanford University. Her eulogy was published on the New York Times this past weekend. In the eulogy, Simpson revealed that before Jobs passed away, he looked at his sister Patty, then his children, and then his wife Laurene. Then he looked over their shoulders past them and said “OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.”

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) uses about 900,000 servers to power their cloud computing, advertising, web-productivity apps, social network, and Google search engine services. Those servers use 0.01% of the world’s electricity. Stanford University professor Jonathan Koomey made this prediction based on data centers making up 1.5% of worldwide electricity (2.2% in the U.S. alone). [Geek.com]

The White House has uploaded some images on Flickr of President Barack Obama’s meeting with the tech titans of Silicon Valley. This photo symbolizes how the meeting went. The meeting was about how these executives plan to support entrepreneurship, increase exports, and strengthen the economy. The executives in this picture includes:

President Barack Obama is making a trip to Silicon Valley today and is meeting with some major tech CEOs. The names of the executives that he is meeting was revealed by the L.A. Times. The meeting will be about supporting entrepreneurship, increasing exports, strengthening the economy, etc. Below is the list of people that he is meeting:

BeachMint.com is a social commerce company that has raised $10 million in funding. The investment was led by Trinity Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Anthem Ventures, and Stanford University. BeachMint was founded by MySpace co-founder Josh Berman. Diego Berdakin is the other co-founder of BeachMint. Below is the full press release:

Feross Aboukhadijeh is a computer science student at Stanford University that is expected to graduate in 2012. That is until he built YouTube Instant and the YouTube co-founder offered him a job through Twitter. Here’s how it all went down.

Pulse News Reader was an application on the iPad app store.  Essentially it was a RSS reader and news feed service created by a couple of Stanford University graduate students.  The application was talked about by Apple CEO Steve Jobs himself at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.

gWallet is an offer-based ad network company that focuses on virtual goods and online games. gWallet raised $12.5 million from Adams Street Partners, Trinity Ventures, and Stanford University. The funding will go towards opening an office in London and in New York City.

gWallet plans to avoid some of the same scams that Zynga accepted as ad deals by offering a “transparent” platform. This means that game developers and social networks choose what ads to accept.

Gurbaksh Chahal is the founder of gWallet and he has experience in selling advertising companies. Chahal founded and sold ClickAgents to ValueClick and then BlueLithium to Yahoo! BlueLithium was bought by Yahoo! for $300 million. Although I admire Chahal for his entrepreneurial spirit, I thought his reality show Secret Millionaire was terrible.