Watch this TED video of Neil Gershenfeld entitled The beckoning promise of personal fabrication. Neil says, “it’s over”. He also discusses fungible computer resources and how the study of Computer Science restricts the promise of advancement of computing and science. I was particularly impressed with how he sees technology and advancement being driven from the bottom up instead of the top down. I think we see some application of computer resources on a pay per drink model being implemented in the cloud, however, his talk goes further and looks at computing resources being material and even atomic in nature which is where the real future lies.

NewsGang posted this tonight, it’s been picked up on CrunchGear as well – the long awaited Silverlight Watch Instantly, available to PC’s for a long time, is now in beta!

Thanks Netflix!

– Update: 9:10pm

Apparently Netflix has been harder at work than I had realized! Netflix will be offering TiVo subscribers access in December – W00t! Amazon may have gotten there first, but the UnBox – Video on Demand offering hasn’t impressed me.

The Cisco Applying Web 2.0 to Your Business Challenges video is a must watch for every company not fully immersed in the world of social networking and new media. Robert Scoble and Jeremiah Owyang. I can’t recommend this video about how using wiki’s, blogs, social media and interaction is changing (and has been changing) business for a long time. Basically, if your company doesn’t have someone immersed in social networking tools first hand – hire one. Get someone in your company to give you feedback on what’s going on in this space. You only need to see the first 30 minutes.