All-You-Can-Read Magazine Subscription App Launches on iPad

Next Issue Media, a joint venture backed by five major U.S. publishers - Conde Nast, Hearst, Meredith, News Corp. and Time Inc. - is launching an all-you-can-read magazine subscription app for the iPad Tuesday. For a flat monthly fee of $10 or $15, users can get access to the digital versions of 39 magazines from those publishers, including back issues.

http://pulse.me/s/b7eor

Fashion's New Establishment

In 2009, Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana made news by filling its front row-typically the sole provenance of A-list actresses and Anna Wintour-with fashion bloggers, even equipping them with laptops. Among those bloggers was Scott Schuman, creator of street style site The Sartorialist, who, in a recent profile in GQ , made no effort to hide his indignation over that show.

http://pulse.me/s/b6q2Y

I bet you over-engineered your startup | Fruit Business

Quick! How do you design distributed scalable software that does many small things to achieve a common goal? Most of you shouted "discrete services!" at the screen, others kind of shook your heads at the buzzword soup in that line. And that's okay too.

http://pulse.me/s/b789w

For Local Marketing, Nothing Beats the Simplicity of a Business-Card Drawing

When we're hired to help develop and implement a neighborhood marketing program, the first step is a business-card drawing. This simple tactic provides several key pieces of information that they can use in executing many of their promotions during the following six to 12 months.

http://pulse.me/s/b58cd

Can we talk about the nonsense of caring about which news outlet first reports a big piece of news? I'm not talking about a genuine scoop-a report that wouldn't have otherwise come to light-but about news that we're all eventually going to find out anyway.

http://pulse.me/s/b6lxR