Client News: Clicker.com & UCLA
February 2nd, 2010 by David
Clicker.com is partnering with a major, public CA university to provide access to an enormous index of online content. The University of California, Los Angeles has created a portal to Clicker.com on their student site, my.ucla.com
This serves a number of different purposes:
- Original student-generated and University-generated content will be indexed on Clicker.com for student (and public) convenience
- All the regular (network and other broadcast content) indexed on Clicker is available to students
- This provides a comprehensive guide to legal content available on the Internet
- Rather than downloading or BitTorrenting content they want to watch, students can use Clicker to find legal versions hosted online. Clicker is a great solution for this because:
- they index full length and high-quality show
- they index TV shows, movies, and music videos
- they let you know what is (and what isn’t) available online
- they have a huge index of content (400,000 episodes from more than 7,000 shows)
The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) has offered a quote in the release, supporting the effort by private companies and public universities to offer legal viewing options for content online. This announcement went live through a press release this morning at 6AM PST. Already several publications have covered the news, we’ve added links below for the coverage we’ve tracked, and we’ll update as we see new stories appear.
