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YouTube launches its Own URL Shortener Service : Youtu.be



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Just few days back, Google Launched URL Shortener service – goo.gl.

Now it is YouTube’s turn. YouTube have introduced its own URL Shortener service – Youtu.be. It will be used only for YouTube videos.

These days there are lots of URL shortening websites are coming up. URL shortening reduce the long URL’s into shorter URL’s. The service which can make the shortest URL are becoming popular.

Using YouTube’s new URL shortener, YouTube Video Uploaders can add things such as:

  1. show thumbnails
  2. embed videos directly
  3. Real time tracking on video spreading

    “Because the link contains the ID of the video you’re going to see, developers can do interesting things like show you thumbnails, embed the video directly, or track how a video is spreading in real-time”.

How to use youtu.be – YouTube URL Shortener service

  1. Take any Youtube URL. for ex: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEdxHgCoXss
  2. Replace the “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=” from the above URL with “http://youtu.be/”> to get: http://youtu.be/tEdxHgCoXss
  3. Put the shorter URL in the browser address bar and hit ENTER. It will redirect to the actual youtube video.



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This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 at 3:41 pm and is filed under google. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

8 Responses to “YouTube launches its Own URL Shortener Service : Youtu.be”

  1. Cookie Stan Diet says:
    December 23, 2009 at 5:55 pm

    That is useful service for those who are interested in video content only like companies. We will see more thumbnails this way and it is not always pleasant. However, it is not about pleasure, but business.
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  2. Saksham Talwar says:
    December 24, 2009 at 12:17 am

    Its a good service launched by YouTube!
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  3. Anish K.S says:
    December 25, 2009 at 10:39 am

    Thanks Nihar, google also started the same service ?.
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  4. Zubair Khan says:
    December 27, 2009 at 9:20 pm

    ya definitely its a very good service launched by you tube i personally liked it and i also like the post because its nice sharing of information thanks for sharing it!

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