New Feature: Link within a Video

Email links to specific points inside a video!

How cool is this new feature on Google?  I found it here on Digg.  Like the Digg commentators, I'd like to see links embedded in the Video, to allow tags and comments in a flickr notes & tags style.

I was lucky enough to work with Daniel Brown and the late Roy Stringer on a multimedia version of a A Brief History of Time.  They were embedding  links into video in the late 90s.  It is cool to see it implemented in such a simple fashion.   Some interesting mashups on the way!

From Google ...

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Now you can email links to specific points inside a video! All you have to do is add the time you'd like to share to the end of a video's URL. We support hours (h), minutes (m), and seconds (s).

For example, Invisible Board is a 1 min 46 sec long video but I believe the coolest part is at 1 min 26 sec, so all I have to do is add #1m26s to the link I'm going to send to my friends! Just like this:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6396990712930217422#1m26s