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<p>AMUSEBALLS. When <strong>Color</strong> came out, <strong>Jimmy Fallon</strong> used it to give out <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/exclusive-bill-nguyen-qa-2011-3?comments_page=2&amp;page=3">tickets</a> to his show. Mr. Fallon, who periodically features gadget maven <strong>Josh Topolsky</strong> on his program and does the occasional bit about iPhone apps, wants to be the next actor-investor a la <strong>Ashton Kutcher</strong>, Betabeat heard today. <strong>Mr. Fallon heard a pitch from a local founder recently</strong> about first-round investing in an iPhone game, we're told, after the founder's pre-launch app got a <strong>bunch of mainstream press. </strong>Dude follows <strong>Gary Vee, Fred Wilson, Leo Laporte, Kevin Rose</strong> on Twttr. Any other start-ups talking to Jimmy? <a href="mailto://tips@betabeat.com">Admit</a>.</p>
<p>WEIRD THAT THERE IS SO MUCH CELEBRITY+TECH NEWS TODAY, but we hear <strong>Lady Gaga</strong> is going to release a <strong>Chrome extension</strong>. It would be an official <strong>Google-Lady Gaga Chrome extension</strong>, we're told, and some New Yorkers are in the running to build it. Right now there is an unofficial <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ibmdipcphomaclobbdecfiakjbejkfmd?hl=en-GB">extension</a> that displays all Ms. Gaga's tweets. Our minds! They are blown!<!--more--></p>
<p>HIDE YR PUTERS. A cautionary tale: One entrepreneur who rents <strong>dedicated office space </strong>at <strong>General Assembly</strong> had his laptop <strong>stolen off his desk</strong> a few weeks ago, a friend of the victim tells Betabeat. "<strong>It concerned me</strong> to hear about the incident but I'm not interested in damaging the reputation of GA," source said. But, he said, "I don't mind the general public knowing they <strong>should be careful, even in friendly atmospheres</strong>."  Fortunately, the <a href="http://www.betabeat.com/2011/03/21/dont-steal-computers-from-to-people-who-know-how-to-use-computers-video/">solution</a> is simple!</p>
<p>SPEAKING OF THE ASSEMBLY. The <strong>Annex</strong> has been annexed! Start-ups including, we hear, <strong>Food52, Jibe and Easel</strong> moved downstairs from their secluded 7th floor outpost. "They were leasing it from another company in the building and the lease ran out sooner than they thought, I believe," a <strong>source</strong> told us.</p>
<p>CAN'T STOP TURNTABLING. <strong>Turntable.fm</strong> is the latest, greatest addictive thing to hit Facebook-only beta from New York. "It's like a sugar high," one developer said this morning (he was also referring to the attendant <strong>crash</strong>). The company formerly known as <strong>StickyBits </strong>downsized and started working on turntable.fm in January, Betabeat learned upon <strong>ambushing the company</strong> in its Union Square office. Things are going well, they said, but they'd like to<strong> work out the bugs</strong> before doing any interviews. The Silicon Alley-born<strong> <a href="http://turntable.fm/coding_soundtrack">Coding Soundtrack</a></strong> room was <strong>until recently the most popular</strong>; now it's some random room in Germany, we're told, due to a write-up in a German music blog, and <strong>over-Skrillexing</strong> by the New York coders.</p>
<p>LUCKY STARS. <strong>TechStars</strong> announces<strong> 30 finalists</strong> tonight. That's out of about 1,000 applications. Yep. Good luck.</p>
<p>FREE INTERNET WEEK? We're seeing and hearing <strong>VIPs slangin' free Internet Week passes</strong> left and right. How many of these things are there?</p>
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<p>AMUSEBALLS. When <strong>Color</strong> came out, <strong>Jimmy Fallon</strong> used it to give out <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/exclusive-bill-nguyen-qa-2011-3?comments_page=2&amp;page=3">tickets</a> to his show. Mr. Fallon, who periodically features gadget maven <strong>Josh Topolsky</strong> on his program and does the occasional bit about iPhone apps, wants to be the next actor-investor a la <strong>Ashton Kutcher</strong>, Betabeat heard today. <strong>Mr. Fallon heard a pitch from a local founder recently</strong> about first-round investing in an iPhone game, we're told, after the founder's pre-launch app got a <strong>bunch of mainstream press. </strong>Dude follows <strong>Gary Vee, Fred Wilson, Leo Laporte, Kevin Rose</strong> on Twttr. Any other start-ups talking to Jimmy? <a href="mailto://tips@betabeat.com">Admit</a>.</p>
<p>WEIRD THAT THERE IS SO MUCH CELEBRITY+TECH NEWS TODAY, but we hear <strong>Lady Gaga</strong> is going to release a <strong>Chrome extension</strong>. It would be an official <strong>Google-Lady Gaga Chrome extension</strong>, we're told, and some New Yorkers are in the running to build it. Right now there is an unofficial <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ibmdipcphomaclobbdecfiakjbejkfmd?hl=en-GB">extension</a> that displays all Ms. Gaga's tweets. Our minds! They are blown!<!--more--></p>
<p>HIDE YR PUTERS. A cautionary tale: One entrepreneur who rents <strong>dedicated office space </strong>at <strong>General Assembly</strong> had his laptop <strong>stolen off his desk</strong> a few weeks ago, a friend of the victim tells Betabeat. "<strong>It concerned me</strong> to hear about the incident but I'm not interested in damaging the reputation of GA," source said. But, he said, "I don't mind the general public knowing they <strong>should be careful, even in friendly atmospheres</strong>."  Fortunately, the <a href="http://www.betabeat.com/2011/03/21/dont-steal-computers-from-to-people-who-know-how-to-use-computers-video/">solution</a> is simple!</p>
<p>SPEAKING OF THE ASSEMBLY. The <strong>Annex</strong> has been annexed! Start-ups including, we hear, <strong>Food52, Jibe and Easel</strong> moved downstairs from their secluded 7th floor outpost. "They were leasing it from another company in the building and the lease ran out sooner than they thought, I believe," a <strong>source</strong> told us.</p>
<p>CAN'T STOP TURNTABLING. <strong>Turntable.fm</strong> is the latest, greatest addictive thing to hit Facebook-only beta from New York. "It's like a sugar high," one developer said this morning (he was also referring to the attendant <strong>crash</strong>). The company formerly known as <strong>StickyBits </strong>downsized and started working on turntable.fm in January, Betabeat learned upon <strong>ambushing the company</strong> in its Union Square office. Things are going well, they said, but they'd like to<strong> work out the bugs</strong> before doing any interviews. The Silicon Alley-born<strong> <a href="http://turntable.fm/coding_soundtrack">Coding Soundtrack</a></strong> room was <strong>until recently the most popular</strong>; now it's some random room in Germany, we're told, due to a write-up in a German music blog, and <strong>over-Skrillexing</strong> by the New York coders.</p>
<p>LUCKY STARS. <strong>TechStars</strong> announces<strong> 30 finalists</strong> tonight. That's out of about 1,000 applications. Yep. Good luck.</p>
<p>FREE INTERNET WEEK? We're seeing and hearing <strong>VIPs slangin' free Internet Week passes</strong> left and right. How many of these things are there?</p>
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