New Feature on YouTube – Deep Linking
YouTube has added a feature which on the surface may not have much use, but could have some potential down the road.
YouTube will now allow you to send users to a specific point in a video by adding a short tag to the end of the video’s URL. Apparently Google Video introduced the same feature over two years ago, (who knew?).
To specify a point, add 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.
For example, my friend Ian posted a video on YouTube from our College days. if I wanted to send you to the point in the video where I enter the room and walk towards the camera the link would be:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osto3TLCVyg#t=0m07s
Pretty cool eh? The linking – NOT my pleather jacket!
The feature just went live and there isn’t any easy way to do this though the YouTube User Interface without manually adding the tag.
