YouTube Enables Handy Deep Linking Within Videos

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YouTube Enables Handy Deep Linking Within Videos

Check this out! It’s not a big new feature but it’s certainly one that will come in handy: YouTube will now allow you to send users to a specific point in a video by appending a short tag to the end of a video’s URL. It’s pretty surprising that this functionality wasn’t available earlier, as Google Video introduced the same feature over two years ago. YouTube users have been forced to rely on third party services like Splicd to do the same thing.

To specify a point, append a tag to the end of your video link with the following syntax: “#t=1m45s” (you can change the numbers before the ‘m’ and ’s’ to edit the minutes and seconds, respectively.

Here’s an example:
Code:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bibCui3lFM#t=1m45s

As another nice touch, YouTube will also automatically detect when someone mentions a time in a video comment and add a hyperlink to that point in the video.

The feature just went live and there isn’t any easy way to do this though the YouTube UI without manually adding the tag (YouTube hasn’t mentioned it on its official blog yet, either).
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[IEmailer.com]

Great find, and very interesting feature.. Will give it a try later on today, specially the auto link video comments one..
Thank you for sharing

[KumanSK]

great feature. they keep improving daily

[JeddahBikers]

Nice feature , i'll try and see

[Dreads]

so if i comment saying

#t=1m45s Rocks
It will auto hyperlink? the #t=1m45s?

Thats pretty sweet

[logylaps]

Originally Posted by Dreads

so if i comment saying

#t=1m45s Rocks
It will auto hyperlink? the #t=1m45s?

Thats pretty sweet

I think they will just parse regular time and add the link themselves.
For example:
1:45 rox!
Would likely have 1:45 a hyperlink.

[mypoint]

interesting feature! this is very useful when you just want to get to your point! i wonder if they will ever be able to devlope one where you dont manually have to put in the time

[BedroomPublishing]

Great find, this will come in handy!

[WishBone]

Excellent tip mate.

[marksmatter]

That's pretty cool - thanks for posting the tip!

[kidtechguru]

Great and interesting tips! Thanks for sharing!

[nfd2005]

Maybe I'm not understanding this right...

Aren't those links nofollow?

[Jenna Appleseed]

^ it's not links to sites but links on youtube that automatically jumps to a section of the video.

[myst729]

This is pretty handy, thanx!

[nfd2005]

Originally Posted by Jenna Appleseed

^ it's not links to sites but links on youtube that automatically jumps to a section of the video.

Ah, thanks for clarifying.

[toby]

what is the usage of this for our benefit???????????