Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Obama Spurns Silicon Valley Vets, Names Virginia’s Secretary of Technology As CTO  —  President Obama will be naming Aneesh Paul Chopra as his choice for CTO during tomorrow’s weekly address, according to a press release posted to the White House’s official web site.

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Obama Spurns Silicon Valley, Names Virginia’s Secretary of Technology As CTO  —  President Obama will be naming his choice for CTO during tomorrow’s weekly address, according to a press release posted to the White House’s official web site.  Chopra currently serves as Virginia’s Secretary of Technology …

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Another Contender Emerges: Posterous Takes On TwitPic With New API  —  The race is on to become the dominant media sharing site on Twitter, with favorites like TwitPic and newcomers including PhotoBucket’s TwitGoo vying for popularity as Twitter begins to hit the mainstream.

Owen Thomas / Gawker:
Oprah Fails to Tweet on Her Big Twitter Show  —  How could one possibly make Twitter even more of an exercise in self-absorption?  How about by broadcasting yourself on national TV while using Twitter?  Oprah’s big Twitter show is on right now and we’re watching.  —  The show starts with Oprah […]

Andrew Hampp / AdAge:
Secret to Ashton Kutcher’s Twitter Success?  Billboards  —  Should He Be Disqualified for Such Old-School Advertising?  —  OAAA gets Twitterpated  —  Here’s how Ashton Kutcher really won the Twitter war with CNN: digital billboards.  —  Lamar Advertising, the third-largest billboard company …

Fred / A VC:
The Power Of Passed Links  —  Links are the currency of the web.  That’s the reason that Google is the king of the web right now.  Google generates more click thrus to more websites than any other web service out there.  —  But I’ve been ruminating on a comment that was […]

Gmail Blog:
New in Labs: Suggest more recipients  —  Have you ever realized you mistakenly left someone important out of an email, or just spent too much time trying to decide who from your long list of contacts to include?  Well, some of us on the Gmail team feel your pain, so we wrote a […]

CNN:
Oprah, Ashton Kutcher mark Twitter ‘turning point’  —  (CNN) — As Ashton Kutcher becomes the first to collect 1 million followers on Twitter and Oprah Winfrey sends out her first tweet, tech observers are debating: Does Friday mark a new peak for the microblogging service?  Or the beginning of its demise?

Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Hulu iPhone App Coming Soon, ‘Badass’  —  Hulu is in the process of developing an app for Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone and iPod touch, we have learned from a plugged-in industry executive.  The app is coming soon (within a few months) and is “badass” — as excellent as Hulu’s Web […]

Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Windows Mobile 6.5 launch: Pencil in May 11  —  The first Windows Mobile 6.5 phones aren’t expected to be available until this fall, but it looks like that isn’t stopping Microsoft from “launching” the next version of its mobile operating system on May 11.  —  May 11 is […]