YouTube now allows linking to a certain time
YouTube just announced a new feature that you can deep-ink to a certain time of the video by adding a time stamp to the URL. I was working on this for EasyYoutube, too, now I am just waiting till the API supports it natively, too (you can already jump to a time but the URI splicing and detection would be cool).
To jump directly to a certain time in a video, just add the time stamp with a URI hash
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qie-N8idatc#t=1m54s
They are also detecting timestamps in comments and link them directly. There is a slight problem that YouTube automatically redirects you from www.youtube.com to yourcountry.youtube.com (for example uk), and that breaks these links! I’ll pester my contacts to look into that.
Well done YouTube!
Tags: comments, deeplinking, timestamp, youtube
