As I travel frequently and always need access to my files – I carry around a portable hard disk, however there have been occassions when it has failed, or worse I could have lost it. I have found and started to use some of these online tools which make them readily available as long as I have an internet connection available.

• Drop box - I really like this to share between my 3 computers
• Mozy - online back up
• Google Docs – I use this word docs and excel so that peopl that I work with in Canada and Australia can access the same files ( and its free)
• Zoho has a heap of online collaboration tools thatyou may find useful

Bumptop is Anand Agarawala’s creative solution to PC desktop organisation. I first discovered the product in his amazing demo presentation at TED Talks. It’s offers an alternative user interface that turns your PC desktop into a literal 3D desk space. You can organise documents into piles, crumple them, stick post-its on the walls, hang photos and pictures around you desk and virtually customise as you like.

My own desktop resembles something of a files slum; overcrowded with old files, excels, images all with poor or no naming conventions – i found one call “aidglw988db”. I just installed Bump Top and it has been very instrumental in inspiring me to clean up my desktop; my slum is looking more and more like a well planned (and well named) CBD.

You can download the trial version for a play or get Bump Top Pro for $29. Check it out.

Yahoo in the US and Canada has signed an advertising agreement with Google and is now preparing to include Google ads in it’s Search Results. This comes after years of Yahoo traffic levels falling in the shadow of Google. And from my own experience trying to maintain stable conversion on Yahoo is getting harder.

On Google’s side they see it as beneficial to the Yahoo! SEM which has been struggling for quite a while now. All adprices will continue to be set by competitive auctions. Yahoo are also going to see benefits. The more Google ads are shown, the more money Yahoo makes because of how much more expensive it is to run SEM on Google. Also it will help where Yahoo struggles with long-tail search queries.

Microsoft however are not to happy about the deal – this will bearly leave Live Search with a 20% share of a the SEM market. Whilst Google have been very specific that this will not mean elimination of a competitor from the market or increase Googles share or search traffic there are still fears Googlisation (Google Monopoly) where Google will be able to charge monopoly prices to advertisers. The issue has been debated alot in terms of commerce, but at the end of the day “It