Hardcopy backup: do you trust your Dropbox?

As the buzzword „cloud“ nowadays is in everybody’s mouth, and google shutting down its Reeder (take that „cloud services closed, sold, shut down whysoever, unexpectedly“) I was thinking of all my digital stuff, and how to backup it. Currently I have a nice server setup in my cellar, and all MacBooks and computers send time…

Wealthfront: Managing your assets as a service

I just came along wealthfront, which is a US asset management company – with the twist that they seem to cut out any middlemen and just take a very low mgmt. fee (0.25% of assets above 10k$). What I find intriguing about the service is the easy of use: there are standard investment-plans you can…

WTF?! Work The Flow!

(Original Text erschienen im Chip Business-Blog, für das ich (un-)regelmäßig schreibe: http://blog.chip.de/business-blog/2012/06/11/wtf-work-the-flow/) “WTF?!” schallt es gelegentlich durch unser Büro – und unweigerlich zieht man den Kopf ein. Ein jeder der Generation “LOL” weiß natürlich um diesen anglizistischen Ausschrei, wenn mal wieder unfassbare und nicht erklärliche Dinge passieren. Bei uns im Büro sind das dann konsternierte Entwickler,…

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