Clicker.com Announces Public Launch of Complete Programming Guide for Internet Television.Emerges From Beta with New Features, Dramatic Increase in Content Catalog, Facebook Integration, and Coverage of Paid VOD Services LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. -- Clicker Media Inc. today announced the public launch of Clicker.com, the first complete programming guide to Internet television Internet television (or Internet TV) is television distributed via the Internet. Overview In the past, television was only distributed by cable, satellite, or terrestrial systems. . Clicker, which has been in private beta since mid-September, is the first truly comprehensive, structured and unbiased resource for navigating all broadcast, and broadcast-quality, programming online. Clicker gives consumers a single point of entry for discovering what's available to watch, where to watch it, and what's worth watching across the entire Internet. Clicker is also unveiling today a litany of new features previously unavailable during beta, including a 33% percent increase in content coverage, which brings its index to over 400,000 full episodes from over 1,200 sources in more than 1,200 categories. In addition, Clicker has added over 30,000 movies from Netflix Instant Streaming and Amazon VOD. (Clicker also catalogs more than 50,000 music videos from over 20,000 artists.) Also new to Clicker.com are feature enhancements honed and developed during the 58-day private beta program. Key developments include: * Improved DVR-like Playlist A file that contains an index to a selected group of music files on the computer. Using digital jukebox software such as iTunes and Winamp, playlists are created by the user by dragging and dropping titles from a master index. The software may be able to create a playlist automatically. functionality, including new episode alerts and full "season passes" * Facebook Connect integration, so anyone can create a Clicker account with Facebook and/or tie their Clicker account to their Facebook profile * User-Generated Content - fans can contribute their own thoughts, observations, and facts about any show or episode * Search Within: The ability to restrict a search to topics within a specific program. For example, searching "Warren Buffett Warren Buffett Known as "the Oracle of Omaha," Buffett is Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and arguably the greatest investor of all time. His wealth fluctuates with the performance of the market, but for the last few years he has been reported to be worth over $30 billion, making " within the show Charlie Rose specifically brings up those episodes where Buffett is interviewed * Related Search: Machine-learning based suggestions on related programs. For example, 30 Rock, The Office and Larry Sanders Show are offered as related suggestions for the show Seinfeld "The last era of television was simple to navigate in retrospect," says Jim Lanzone, founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Clicker Media Inc. "Shows came on at specific times, and we had a schedule laid out in a neat grid. But even the growth from three TV networks to 150+ cable channels was nowhere near as dramatic as today's changes toward a world of nearly infinite video-on-demand, scattered amongst thousands of online destinations. Helping viewers navigate this new landscape, to discover what's on online and where to find it, is the singular need Clicker was built to fulfill." Clicker's core functionality represents a combination of: * Directory - a browseable taxonomy of all programs by title, category, popularity, airdate air·date n. The date on which a program is scheduled to be broadcast. and network, organized in simple tree structure fashion * Search engine - direct navigation to a specific show or video * DVR (1) (Digital Video Recorder) A device that records video onto a hard disk from one or more ceiling mounted video cameras. Part of a security system, the DVR typically supports 4, 8 or 16 separate camera channels. - the Clicker Playlist lets users track which episodes of their favorite shows they've watched, set season passes for high-priority content, and receive alerts when new content becomes available * Wiki - allows fans to contribute information for a given show or episode * Entertainment Guide - from charts of most popular shows and episodes by category to editorially highlighted programs by the Clicker staff Clicker recently welcomed Blake Krikorian, founder and former CEO of Sling Media to its board of directors. He joined Clicker founder/CEO Jim Lanzone (former CEO of Ask.com) and Series A investors Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital and Geoff Yang from Redpoint Ventures, and J.D. Heilprin, founder of ModernFeed, a website acquired by Clicker. Clicker launched their private beta in September 2009, and opens today to all users without the password restriction previously required. About Clicker: Clicker aims to become the complete programming guide to Internet television. Clicker catalogs all broadcast programming online, along with TV-quality Web originals, movies and music videos, and delivers them in one seamless, organized experience that includes more than 400,000 episodes, from over 7,000 shows, from over 1,200 networks, in over 1,200 categories. Clicker is based in Los Angeles, CA, funded by world-class venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] Benchmark Capital and Redpoint Ventures, and headed by CEO/Founder Jim Lanzone, former CEO of Ask.com. Please visit http://www.clicker.com, or http://blog.clicker.com for more information. 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