Internet Killed the Television Star

With the dawn of high speed, the internet has taken new strides in media. Large television corporations

Groundhog's Day featuring Bill Murray on Hulu.com

began to allow full episodes of their shows online (with advertising, of course). Netflix is increasingly growing their instant movie database. Now, another third party website has emerged as a vessel of truth for those who are addicted to watching TV on the web.

It’s called Hulu.com

If you haven’t jumped on this ship yet, you should probably get to it. That is unless you couldn’t really care about free movies and television episodes in high quality video. Hulu provides both television and movies with limited advertising for your viewing pleasure when ever you want. I personally watched a ton of Arrested Development on there because I had no intention of wanting to buy all of the seasons on DVD. You can watch the latest Cobert Report, or take a glance at the latest on Family Guy. It is a treasure trove of media and definitely worth a glance, especially if you are like me and are too cheap to pony up the cash for Cable, or are just too lazy to live by televisions schedule.

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Net Watch: Cuil

Is Cuil a Google-killer?

On occasion, The Maelstrom will bring up noted notables of what is going on in the internet. This weeks is specifically about a new search engine by the creators of defected employee’s of Google. It is called Cuil (pronounced like “cool”) and is reworking the way search engines are operated. Side note: Cuil is an old Irish word for knowledge (which is mentioned on their website).

I checked it out and it definitely seems to have some good things going for it. But, being that it is in in the beginning stages it’s going to need some work done, not to mention they will have to get some kind of myCuil going for them sooner or later if they want to compete with juggernauts like Google and Yahoo!. We’ll have to see how far this little site goes, but for now give it a shot.

http://www.cuil.com