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YouTube Enables Handy Deep Linking Within Videos

Discussion in 'Google' started by bornic, Oct 25, 2008.

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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
    Code (markup):
    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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    bornic, Oct 25, 2008 IP
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  2. IEmailer.com

    IEmailer.com Well-Known Member

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    #2
    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 ;)
     
    IEmailer.com, Oct 26, 2008 IP
  3. KumanSK

    KumanSK Banned

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    #3
    great feature. they keep improving daily :D
     
    KumanSK, Oct 26, 2008 IP
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    JeddahBikers Guest

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    #4
    Nice feature , i'll try and see :)
     
    JeddahBikers, Oct 26, 2008 IP
  5. Dreads

    Dreads Well-Known Member

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    #5
    so if i comment saying

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

    Thats pretty sweet :D
     
    Dreads, Oct 26, 2008 IP
  6. logylaps

    logylaps Active Member

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    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.
     
    logylaps, Oct 26, 2008 IP
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    mypoint Well-Known Member

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    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
     
    mypoint, Oct 26, 2008 IP
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    BedroomPublishing Peon

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    #8
    Great find, this will come in handy!
     
    BedroomPublishing, Oct 26, 2008 IP
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    WishBone Peon

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    Excellent tip mate.
     
    WishBone, Oct 26, 2008 IP
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    #10
    That's pretty cool - thanks for posting the tip!
     
    marksmatter, Oct 26, 2008 IP
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    Great and interesting tips! Thanks for sharing!
     
    kidtechguru, Oct 26, 2008 IP
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    Maybe I'm not understanding this right...

    Aren't those links nofollow?
     
    nfd2005, Oct 27, 2008 IP
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    #13
    ^ it's not links to sites but links on youtube that automatically jumps to a section of the video.
     
    Jenna Appleseed, Oct 27, 2008 IP
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    This is pretty handy, thanx!
     
    myst729, Oct 27, 2008 IP
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    Ah, thanks for clarifying.
     
    nfd2005, Oct 28, 2008 IP
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    toby Notable Member

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    what is the usage of this for our benefit???????????
     
    toby, Oct 28, 2008 IP