Traditionally OurDisk is a commercial product. It’s a straight up and down business tool to help businesses share their documents.

Traditionally mothers are baby boomers that say ‘radical’ out of context and remind you to call your sister a lot.

Traditionally web 2.0 business tools and mothers are not mentioned in the same breath. If your mother is anything like mine, she probably prints emails and posts them.

I now have a different perspective on the word ‘mother’ as a new dad. The young lass I think is a good-sort and is also my wife is now a mother. Surprisingly, she hasn’t suddenly forgotten how to use a computer, in fact quite the opposite.

Our son is photographed every day, sometimes excessively. He is also the subject of several terabytes of video footage in only 3 short months. This has caused several dilemmas –

1. How do we send Grammy and Poppy some high-res photos for their wall?
2. How do we backup these precious photos and videos away from our house?
3. Who the hell has the time to look at 40 million baby photos anyway?

The answer came to me in a flash. OurDisk of course! It’s the perfect Mothers’ Day gift. She can store all the photos and video in OurDisk, it’s off-site, secure and backed-up and she can give the relatives a login to download her favourites.

OurDisk has a 30-day free trial and is only $99/month, so as a Mothers’ Day present, she will get 90 days of OurDisk bliss.

Now that’s a heartfelt gift that I can buy from the comfort of my desk.