Skip to the Best Part of a YouTube Video

You no longer need to tell your friends or readers of your posts to skip to a certain time of a YouTube clip. As the Google Operating System blog points out, YouTube's embedded player has a parameter that lets you specify the number of seconds that should be skipped before starting to play the video. Here's how you should edit the code: append &start=[number of seconds from the start of the video] to both URLs.

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/abcdefghijk&hl=en&fs=1&start=15"></param><param
name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/abcdefghijk&hl=en&fs=1&start=15"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425"
height="344"></embed></object>

Now you can also do the same with the video's URL by appending a short tag to the end of the video link. The TechCrunch blog explains how:

To specify a point, append a tag to the end of your video link with the following syntax: “#t=1m30s” (you can change the numbers before the ‘m’ and ’s’ to edit the minutes and seconds, respectively).

Here’s an example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxuHi_GdAwg#t=1m30s

Since there's no end parameter, you can try TubeChop. There you can enter a YouTube clip URL, set the start time and end time of the best part using a slider, and send the chopped clip URL via email or on your site. In addition to TubeChop, Slicd also uses YouTube's API to isolate a part of a video.