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A useful trick for YouTube nerds: Deep linking. A weird name for a simple idea: Linking to a specific time point in a YouTube video. Here’s how it works.
Say you are watching the YouTube video where David Letterman is interviewing Borat Sagdiyev. You see that the address is,
Now say you want to show your friend the part where Borat high fives David Letterman. This happens at 1 minute and 6 seconds—but how do you get there?
Well, to the end of the address type &t=1m6s like this,
If you wanted to start the video at 2 minutes and 9 seconds, you would type &t=2m9s like this,
Now, you can send the web address in an email (or put it into a website) so that when a person clicks the link, it goes to the exact time. Nice!
