I want it now... seems to be fashionable this week

Last week Google beta launched Google Instant search, in short, search answers appearing as you typed your query, but more on that another day, even if its functionality will save me 5 seconds a search!!

Speed being one of the amazing things about the web, some quick off the mark smart cookie created a YouTube instant version, which is pretty impressive.

Have a play with the "unofficial" YouTube Instant here....

Meanwhile YouTube themselves, are about to kick off a two day beta test of Live Streaming, something that they've experimented with in the past with U2 concerts and cricket tests. They've hooked up with a few content partners and put together this rather nice looking widget so you can see what they are scheduling: