iPad round-up: How to choose the right model, plus funding for iPad apps

Yes, I know. But this will all quieten down after the weekend. A bit. • Buyer's Guide: Choose the right iPad >> Wired Indispensible if you a) want to buy an iPad b) are in the US and c) have between $499 and $839 to spare. Wired help you decide whether you really need the 3G version, or 64Gb of storage. • The iPad: Apple's next gold rush >> GigaOm In tantalising GigaOM stats form. • iPad venture funds >> paidContent YCombinator, AppFund and a handful of other venture firms are setting aside funding specifically for iPad app development. • iPad plans and payments >> Editors' Weblog Editors' weblog summarises the business models so far for publishers on the iPad, including the $200,000 ad in Time Magazine's first ipad edition and the WSJ's premium-price app. • Want to see the iPad? So do Apple store employees >> Reuters Apple staff still haven't laid eyes on an iPad. So no surprises there then. • Seton Hill University to give all students an iPad >> UAW There's always once college that brings an iPhone/Kindle/insert-gadget-name-here into the syllabus, which is a sneaky way of getting a lot of publicity. • Air Harp: An iPad app 2,000 years in the making >> TechCrunch I qote: "The iPhone is great, but it's small. The iPad is bigger; you can cradle it, like a lap harp. Behold, Air Harp!" • Condé Nast plans to debut content on the iPad >> Valleywag Wired's iPad app won't be the first Condé Nast iPad app, but it will be the most ambitious. • App rivals fight for toehold >> WSJ Other app platforms are losing out to Apple, which now hosts 150,000 apps. • Kyte jumps on the iPad's HTML5 bandwagon >> TechCrunch Steve Jobs' can count another small victory in his mission to force the technology industry to abandon Flash. • In e-book era, you can't even judge a cover >> NYTimes Marketeers and designers lament the decline of the book jacket. • Europe's biggest publisher embraces the WePad >> TechCrunch German publishing giant Gruner + Jahr picked the WePad over the iPad. But with a user interface like that, we're not quite sure they get the point.