Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Offerpal Gets Its Third CEO In A Year, Garrick Named Executive Chairman  —  Offerpal Media has just announced that Mihir Shah has been named president and CEO, while chairman and former CEO George Garrick has been named executive chairman.  This is Offerpal's third CEO in a year …

Agence France Presse:
Google to pay 8.5 million dollars to settle Buzz case  —  SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Google has agreed to pay 8.5 million dollars (US) to settle a privacy lawsuit over a Buzz social networking tool added to free email service Gmail in February, according to court documents.

Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
In Defense of Google, Or Why Consumer Watchdog is Full of It  —  The self-appointed Consumer Watchdog activist group is running a Times Square jumbotron advertisement lambasting Google as a massive invader of your privacy, caricaturing its CEO Eric Schmidt as a creepy, high-tech ice cream vendor who profiles children.

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Tweetmeme's Button Impressions Collapsed 20% After Twitter's Button Launched  —  It was only a year ago that Tweetmeme declared their intention to be the king of retweets.  And for most of the past year, that was the case.  Their retweet button was everywhere.

Chris Cameron / ReadWriteWeb:
IBM Helps Tennis Fans “See Through Walls” with Augmented Reality  —  It may come as a surprise to some but augmented reality and the wide world of sports go way back.  Glowing hockey pucks and yellow first-down lines on the football field are just a few of the early examples, but today AR is a part of every-day sports broadcasts.

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter For iPhone Push Notifications Are Being Internally Tested; Rolling Out Soon  —  To many users, Twitter for iPhone (the artist formerly known as Tweetie) is perhaps the perfect Twitter client (though I'd argue that the new Twitter for iPad is right there with it).

Douglas MacMillan / Business Week:
Ex-Googler Lee Backs China Companies to Foster Startup Culture  —  Founded by Kai-Fu Lee, former head of Google's China division, business incubator Innovation Works is funding 12 startups amid strong demand for Web technology  —  Kai-Fu Lee, who headed Google Inc.'s (GOOG) …

Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Ev Williams: Twitter Will Actually Help Information Overload  —  At its core, Twitter is a “recipient-driven medium,” said CEO Evan Williams in a public conversation tonight in San Francisco, Calif. What does that mean?  Williams, an unusually theoretical CEO, is happy to explain.

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Nvidia's new graphics chips will give you laptops with long battery life and 3D  —  Nvidia is announced a new family of laptop graphics chips today that will balance good 3D performance and battery life.  The new Nvidia GeForce 400M series of graphics chips will be used in a number …

Rebecca / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
EFF Asks Court to Protect Craigslist from Defamation Suit  —  San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a coalition of public interest groups and law professors have asked a California appeals court to protect craigslist from a lawsuit that could spur websites to be less helpful …

Edmund Lee / AdAge:
AOL's Armstrong: Why We Went With Google  —  Content Portal's Search Traffic Is Falling, but Still Accounts for 20% of Its Revenue  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — In a sign of Google's renewed belief in AOL's future, the search giant has outbid Microsoft to retain AOL's search traffic for another five years.

Alex North / Google Wave Developer Blog:
Wave open source next steps: “Wave in a Box”  —  Since the announcement that we will discontinue development of Google Wave as a standalone product, many people have asked us about the future of the open source code and Wave federation protocol.  After spending some time on figuring out our next steps …

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter Now Over 145 Million Users, Almost 300,000 Apps  —  When I read Twitter CEO Evan Williams post tonight about the state of Twitter from a mobile perspective, the first thing that jumped out at me what that Twitter for Android, an app Twitter worked hard on, isn't even in the top 10 most-used apps for the service.

Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
YouTube Ads Turn Videos Into Revenue  —  SAN BRUNO, Calif. — Last month, a YouTube user, TomR35, uploaded a clip from the AMC series “Mad Men” in which Don Draper makes a heartfelt speech about the importance of nostalgia in advertising.  —  Viewers wouldn't notice, but that clip also makes …

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
This Spam Infographic About Spam Infographics Makes My Head Hurt  —  Buzzfeed, the Huffington Post of Internet memes, wins the “more meta than thou” award for making “An Infographic Backlash Infographic” inspired by the tragic tale of a guy whose job it was to game Digg back when Digg had enough traffic to make it worth gaming.

Evan Williams / Twitter Blog:
The Evolving Ecosystem  —  Just over four months ago, at Chirp, our Twitter developer conference, I talked about how “Twitter is too hard” and what we're doing to address that.  —  One major area of difficulty I highlighted was getting Twitter on your phone.

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
In The Coming HTML5 Browser Wars, The Markup Should Remain The Same  —  On Monday, Google made a big splash with a customized Arcade Fire video page that showed off all the cool things HTML5 can do, from video, animations and 3D rendering to gorgeous fonts and choreographed windows.

Miguel Helft / Bits:
Apple-Facebook Friction Erupts Over Ping  —  If it is true that the enemy of your enemy is your friend, then Apple and Facebook ought to be friends.  Their common enemy, of course, is Google.  —  But Apple's entry into social networking with the iTunes music social network Ping on Wednesday, has made them frenemies.

Alex Howard / O'Reilly Radar:
FCC.gov poised for an overdue overhaul  —  For an agency that is charged with regulating communications, the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) has been a bit behind the curve in evolving its online presence.  FCC.gov was launched in June 1995, redesigned in 1999, and relaunched again in September 2001.

John Siracusa / Ars Technica:
Apple's trouble with TV  —  Apple TV has been a persistent loser from a company that usually only tolerates winners.  It's clear that Apple wants to do something “in the living room,” but damned if it can figure out exactly what that is.  Yesterday, Apple took another run at this thing, announcing an “all-new” Apple TV.