And the latest bit of 'deep' news is that YouTube is now allowing you to deep-link within its video content. This means that instead of linking to the beginning of a video on YouTube, you can link directly to a point within that video.
This is important because as YouTube increases the length of content available on the site, it's going to become increasingly helpful to be able to point people to specific points within that content. This is just another utility (that YouTube has not yet made 'official' -- it's only possible to do this now by manually altering the URL) to be used when distributing content, or blogging about it.
For example, if I wanted to link you right to where I receive my Commodore 64 on my birthday, rather than make you sit through the setup, you can do that by appending '#t=0m12s' to the end of the YouTube URL.
If you're in the business of getting people to link to your content, this could be a good tool for you.
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