Let me get this out of the way, NFL.com’s site for the superbowl, a link that says “Live” I kinda expected to actually get the live event … not live bloggers. Misleading and annoying since I had actually planned on watching the game on their site. Maybe this is my fault for not doing a lot of research beforehand. CBS was misleading in this respect as well though not quite as bad. I even checked ESPN360 since I’ve been watching the University of Kentucky basketball games there.

So no, I did not get to watch the game. I gave up trying to find a live feed 20 minutes after the game started and I wasn’t motivated enough to drive somewhere else to watch it.

So today I watched the ads on hulu.com. Hulu has got a lot of good things going for them … if only they could have gotten the live feed of the game too. Or even on a 2 hour delay or something. If you haven’t watched the ads yet you can check them out below and you won’t even have to eave my site to do so.

I wasn’t especially amazed by any single ad however. Here are the ads that made me take action and why:

Flo.tv: I do want TV on my iphone and full episodes not snippets and previews. It looks like Flo TV can do this but they didn’t do anything other than get me to their website since they don’t offer their services for the iphone. It looks like they’re using a special chip to deliver service so there is a hardware limitation. Looks like they might add it to future iphones or the mophie juicepack? So no Flo TV for me.

HomeAway.com: I wasn’t really swayed by the Griswold mini-movie but it wasn’t bad. Basically I just wanted to bookmark the site for future reference since it is right, sometimes renting a house would be the better option.

Dockers: So I’m not a guy, but who doesn’t want a chance at free pants? And they made it easy for me to try. I didn’t win, oh darn. As far as I’m concerned however they could have skipped the first 3/4 of the ad. What was with the pantless people in ads this year? CareerBuilder did that too.

Runners up – I didn’t take action immediately:

TruTV: I think I liked this ad the most because it was unexpectedly funny. But I didn’t immediately go to the website. Not sure if I’m interested in the content of the site however. It looks like it could be the start of something good but I don’t think I’m the target audience.

Vizio:The internet and TV are merging. Looks like they’re going to be appealing to the existing TV market with Vizio internet apps. Internet for the TV instead of TV for the internet. WebTV tried and failed but maybe Vizio will get this right.

Snickers: Betty White … need I say more? She just has a way. Has she been like 80 years old for the last 20 years?

KGB: The business name was probably more intriguing than the ad. I didn’t know where they were going to go so I paid attention. The lack of info about price (or maybe it was in the fine print) was where I was turned off. So many things where a text message is involved are overpriced and going to the website I was right – looks like it’s $1 per answer. I just downloaded Siri for my iphone and I think I’ll stick with that and some other apps and sites that answer most of my questions. Oh and translation apps… those are always good… Have I mentioned I have an iphone? Seems to be affecting my opinion of things here.

Denny’s: Free breakfast, need I say more. The chickens screaming over and over were annoying. Mostly their scream was annoying, I liked the chickens.