Introducing Ta.gg

Posted on January 20, 2008
Filed Under General, Rails |

I 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:

Google search - http://ta.gg/g
Yahoo - http://ta.gg/y
YouTube - http://ta.gg/u
Myspace - http://ta.gg/m
Facebook - http://ta.gg/f
Bebo - http://ta.gg/b
Digg - http://ta.gg/d
eBay - http://ta.gg/e
Target - http://ta.gg/ta
Walmart - http://ta.gg/wa
Amazon - http://ta.gg/a
CNN - http://ta.gg/c
Wall Street Journal - http://ta.gg/j
Wikipedia - http://ta.gg/w
Digital Podcast - http://ta.gg/dp

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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