YouTube went down again thursday night, but this time, it was a planned "outage." Now the site is up and running again, with "some maintenance and . . . a few new features" under its belt.
YouTube Blog offered a fairly comprehensive description of the overhaul. A new feature that is definitely worth noting is the availability of "Custom Channel URLs."
They're reminiscent of the MySpace account-naming system - "you can create your own customized channel url which will be simply youtube.com/name."
As for what can fill that "name" spot, "your custom URL can be your username or what ever name you want with a few exceptions - you can't pick someone else's username and you can't pick any words that would make your mother stick a bar of soap in your mouth."
The My Account page also received some attention in the update. "We've been continuing to enhance the My Account page over the past couple of weeks . . . . We also added a dropdown with some quick links to your most important things from the My Account link in the upper right hand corner."
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