December 22, 2009 at 09:16Link Shortener Youtu.be
Youtube has joined the list of sites that launched their shortcut links. For this, the Belgian domain youtu.be is selected.
To create your own shortened links, you need to activate the AutoShare function in your Youtube account. After that, the shortened links will automatically cross into your feeds on Twitter and Google Reader, from any video you have added to Favorites. In addition, you can create shortened links manually by simply replacing part of the URL from “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=” with “http://youtu.be/” in this way: youtu.be/FdeioVndUhs .
It is clear that such an address does not save much (it will be seven characters longer than the Bit.ly link), but it guarantees the recipient of the link that he will be redirected to the YouTube site.
Recall that over the past month, shorteners of goo.gl links from Google and fb.me from Facebook have begun work.
To create your own shortened links, you need to activate the AutoShare function in your Youtube account. After that, the shortened links will automatically cross into your feeds on Twitter and Google Reader, from any video you have added to Favorites. In addition, you can create shortened links manually by simply replacing part of the URL from “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=” with “http://youtu.be/” in this way: youtu.be/FdeioVndUhs .
It is clear that such an address does not save much (it will be seven characters longer than the Bit.ly link), but it guarantees the recipient of the link that he will be redirected to the YouTube site.
Recall that over the past month, shorteners of goo.gl links from Google and fb.me from Facebook have begun work.