aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Monday, July 24, 2006

Deep linking video

Google has a new feature that lets you link within a video:

Now you can email links to specific points inside a video!  All you have to do is add the time you’d like to share to the end of a video’s URL. We support hours (h), minutes (m), and seconds (s).

For example, Invisible Board is a 1 min 46 sec long video but I believe the coolest part is at 1 min 26 sec, so all I have to do is add #1m26s to the link I’m going to send to my friends! Just like this: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6396990712930217422#1m26s

A similar functionality that lets you excerpt an audio file has long been one of my favorite features at ITConversations.