Google video permalinks, nice |
You just sat through 10 minutes of video and the best parts you wanted to talk about and point to in your write-up are at 5:33 and 7:24 respectively, how do you do it?
The traditional way has been telling readers the timestamps and letting them fast forward (when possible) to the points, but now Google Video is letting us anchor link directly to videos on Google Video at the the timestamps with the following format:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=ID#ZZhXXmYYs
ID = the ID of the video
# = start the video permalink
ZZ = the hour where the clip takes place
XX = the minute where the clip takes place
YY = the seconds
A Few Examples
- My Incredible Hulk Review where I growl like the Hulk [0m4s = 0 minutes, 4 seconds into the video clip]
- Hulk review again where the review grade shows up on screen [1m0s = 1 minute, 0 seconds]
- Some dude creating a fart flamethrower (pictured above).
- Second Life video where CEO Phillip Rosedale explains that they “started in 2003 with 16 simulators [servers] online” [12m48s = 12 minutes, 48 seconds]
- Another Second Life video where Daniel Linden explains that eventually Linden Lab will open source the SL server software [01h10m20s = 1 hour, 10 minutes, 20 seconds]
Much needed feature
This feature serves multiple purposes: it lets people link to the best parts of videos and allows Google to determine search relevancy based on the text surrounding these permalinks. Google isn’t calling them permalinks, but I am. They are just making it sound like you can email people to your favorite spots.
Will be interesting to see how this improves Google video searches relevancy over time. Google Video has not been a significant competitor to YouTube yet, but they are improving.
Disclaimer: I own GOOG stock.
Update 6/2/07 9:45am PST: Updated the instructions above to include hours as well as an example showing usage.
Update 10/28/08 10:48am PST: You can do this at YouTube as well by appending to the end of a YouTube video URL in the following format:
#t=00m00s
So if I wanted to link to a spot in a video at the 2:32 mark the code would look like this:
#t=02m23s
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Yeah, it will be interesting to see how competitors respond, too.
Comment by Sterling Camden — July 21, 2006 @ 12:58 pm PST
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There’s an urban legend about a guy who lit a volcanic fart after eating a massive load of beans–the methane gas exploded in his guts and killed him.
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It trully is a great feature but will it kill You Tube? I do not think so. You tube is just better. And as Google bought YouTube it has no interest in doing that. But they could make that feature on You Tube also - it would be great.
Comment by Tomasz — March 5, 2008 @ 11:35 am PST