On Thursday night, August 17, 2006, YouTube went down on planned maintenance. However, to our surprise, they had a few minor changes to their services. The YouTube Blog describes these changes in details, and one new feature that is definitely worth mentioning is the availability of “Custom Channel URLs”.
YouTube‘s Custom Channel URLs’ naming system is similar to that found on the MySpace. With YouTube, you can create your own customized channel url which will be simply “youtube.com/name“. The “name” in “youtube/name” can be your username, or whatever names you want to add there (with the exception of other’s usernames or inappropriate words).
Another update is in the “My Account” page. YouTube has added a dropdown menu of several quick links to your most important things from the “My Account” link in the upper right hand corner. Aside from that, the YouTube Blog also mentioned some minor “cosmetics” change to pretty up some little things here and there on YouTube. An example is the new buttons in embeds and at the end of a video.
Fortunately, that’s not all, according to the YouTube Blog. YouTube is preparing some new features on their site, which will launch in due time.
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