YouTube Debuts youtu.be URL Shortener
Google followed up the debut of its Goo.gl URL shortener last week with youtu.be, a similar service for its YouTube video site, TechCrunch reported.
The good, according to TechCrunch: youtu.be works exclusively with YouTube videos, so it can’t be used by spammers, and because youtu.be uses YouTube video IDs, developers can mine information such as thumbnails and how a video is spreading.
The bad, according to TechCrunch: youtu.be links come out to 27 characters due to incorporating those YouTube video IDs, which are 11 characters long.
In a post on the YouTube Blog, engineering manager Vijay Karunamurthy wrote:
To see this feature in action, use AutoShare to link up your YouTube account to social networks like Twitter and Google Reader.
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