Introducing Ta.gg

by alex on January 20, 2008

TaggI just put the finishing touches on a beta version of Ta.gg. Ta.gg is a short URL service that takes long URLs and turns them into short URLs.

I choose the domain because it is the shortest domain I could find when spelled on a standard cell phone key pad. On my Razr, spelling ta.gg takes only 5 keystrokes (82144). Other services take many more keystrokes to spell. For example, TinyURL.com takes 24 keystrokes to spell.

I also added functionality so that you can add keyword tags to your Ta.gg which should make it easy to find interesting links.

I made a bunch of short cuts people can play with:

And a bookmark tool to make it easy to make Ta.ggs. Simply add the link below to your browser favorites/bookmarks:
Ta.gg It!
and click it everytime you stumble across a URL you need to Ta.gg.

It’s built on Rails, so it will be interesting to see how it scales.

If you give it a try, let me know what you think.

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sinclair1952 September 9, 2008 at 6:35 pm

Wonderful! I was a Tinyurl freek until it reached the fifth character. And the tinyurl prefix has always been unwieldly, IMHO.

http://tinyurl.com/f34cz
vs.
http://ta.gg/1du
or
ta.gg/1du if you type it.

I see we can dispense with the http://, at least in Firefox.

Why don’t you make a Firefox extension?

Keep up the good work!

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