youtu.be
YouTube today announced its very own URL shortener, joining the likes of TinyURL, bit.ly and even goo.gl.
In a blog post published this week, YouTube's Vijay Karunamurthy announced that the company was launching a URL shortener for users eager to cut those long, pesky links down to something more bite-sized and manageable.
You can use the feature via AutoShare, which links your YouTube account to the likes of Twitter and Google reader. Whenever you favorite a video, it'll show up on your network and your friends will see this shortened URL.
If you're not into spamming your friends with all your favorited videos, you use the feature manually too:
To use youtu.be manually, simply take a URL like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdeioVndUhs and replace the"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=" with "http://youtu.be/" to get: http://youtu.be/FdeioVndUhs Plug that shorter URL into a browser, and you'll see it redirects to that video.
In case you're interested, the example YouTube used is New Boy, a short film from Ireland that focuses on a young African boy moving to Dublin. I hadn't heard of the short – shocking, seeing as how it was nominated for an Oscar and us Micks tend to freak out and go nuts when something like that happens – but it's actually pretty good. Embedded below for those of you who have nothing better to do two days before Christmas as well as those who have an affinity for funny Irish accents.
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YouTube today announced its very own URL shortener, joining the likes of TinyURL, bit.ly and even goo.gl.
In a blog post published this week, YouTube's Vijay Karunamurthy announced that the company was launching a URL shortener for users eager to cut those long, pesky links down to something more bite-sized and manageable.
You can use the feature via AutoShare, which links your YouTube account to the likes of Twitter and Google reader. Whenever you favorite a video, it'll show up on your network and your friends will see this shortened URL.
If you're not into spamming your friends with all your favorited videos, you use the feature manually too:
To use youtu.be manually, simply take a URL like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdeioVndUhs and replace the"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=" with "http://youtu.be/" to get: http://youtu.be/FdeioVndUhs Plug that shorter URL into a browser, and you'll see it redirects to that video.
In case you're interested, the example YouTube used is New Boy, a short film from Ireland that focuses on a young African boy moving to Dublin. I hadn't heard of the short – shocking, seeing as how it was nominated for an Oscar and us Micks tend to freak out and go nuts when something like that happens – but it's actually pretty good. Embedded below for those of you who have nothing better to do two days before Christmas as well as those who have an affinity for funny Irish accents.
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