YouTube, the world’s largest video sharing site, has recently implemented a URL shortener which reduces the length of YouTube URLs, and nothing else.
The new Youtu.be URL shortener allows users to share videos more quickly, while empowering developers to provide thumbnails, directly embed video, and track the dissemination of a video in real-time.
To see this feature in action, use AutoShare to link up your YouTube account to social networks like Twitter and Google Reader. Then, whenever you favorite a video on YouTube, for example, that action will get syndicated out to your network, who will see this shortened edition of the video’s URL.
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.
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