CopyTaste makes tiny URLs for your secrets

CopyTaste is a new service that lets you very quickly post text, photos, and videos to an anonymously hosted page. Think of it like blogging, but without a destination page, or any breadcrumbs that lead back to your identity.

The service features a WYSIWYG text editor, along with the option to insert videos and pictures into your post, the latter of which can be hosted on CopyTaste's servers. Heavy users can install a Firefox extension that lets you rip down the content from any page you're on and squirrel it away for viewing and sharing later on.

What makes CopyTaste really interesting is that you can in fact associate one or more of your posts with an existing profile. In this case it's your OpenID profile, where any posts you've made will be listed. You can also go and look at what other people have shared, which puts it in line with services like ClipMarks, Jeteye, Diigo, and others.

Still in need of some work are the social features though. You can see other users' CopyTaste posts if they'd made them public, but there's no way to follow that user or get in touch with them.

CopyTaste gives you a registration-free means of publishing blog posts or dumping text for sharing elsewhere.

(Credit: CNET Networks)

[pjk0]

If this is truly "anonymous", then it will inevitably become a malware, warez and porn cesspool.

But I can't see how it could be, given that it links to OpenID and so forth. I think one should be careful bandying about terms like "anonymity" so freely. Because to me it looks more like the concept of "security via obscurity" - a laughable concept in the security community.

I'd be willing to bet the first person that posts something like Scientology OT3 texts on there, the Scienos will have the spooks on their ass in a heartbeat, via very cooperative CopyTaste staff.

[mattmcb123]

Why is there a new site coming out everyday for shrinking URLs... use a hyperlink to shrink a URL if you really need to.
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[errorer]

How can you possibly think that this is a URL shrinking site? This site allows you to make a URL to send your friends that includes a text, video or photo file or all of them at the same time. Its damn easy to use and you don't have to register. It does not shrink an existing url like tinyurl does. Try using it sometime...