Filed under: iPod Family, Cult of Mac
iPod nano wants to be your friend
I'd heard that MySpace was the place to see and be seen for hipsters of all ages, but isn't the iPod nano a bit young to be on MySpace? Apparently not.
Tyler tipped us off that while he was innocently trawling MySpace last night he noticed that iPod Green Nano was the featured profile. Didn't take long to locate Green's closest friend, iPod Pink Nano and iPod Blue Nano. Each of them has more than 1500 friends already, by the way, and with the prevalence of Podophiles rumored to be on MySpace, I'm sure that number will only grow.
The iPod nano profile pages contain links to buy iPods, of course, along with a photo gallery, videos of the commercials, free iPod nano screensavers, desktop wallpapers and even MySpace profile skins. I'm not the MySpace type so I have no idea how effective this advertising model is, but I suppose it can't hurt.
In trying to locate other possible Apple-sponsored profiles I replaced /pinknano at the end of the URL with /rednano. In case you were curious, the rednano URL is already taken by a young red-headed girl in FL. I wonder if Apple has tried (or would try) to buy or rent her profile from her?
Thanks, Tyler!
UPDATE: As of 1pm ET, the nano profile pages are now MIA from MySpace but we're not sure why. Since we're the curious types we've dropped MySpace an email to find out.
UPDATE: As of 2pm ET the profile pages are back online. Go figure! Enjoy~
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
pft said 10:21AM on 10-17-2006
So, you're saying the marketing department paid for an ad?
This just in, Apple janitorial cleaned out a trash bin.
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Bryan Walls said 10:40AM on 10-17-2006
Shouldn't the url for the red one be /[RED]nano anyway?
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Dan said 10:44AM on 10-17-2006
I also try to avoid myspace at all costs but these profiles look very good, and will be definitely be an effective means of advertising to the market at hand.
Further, I think we should all thank Apple for offering the myspace page theme, in the hope that at least a few will use it instead of something far more hideous.
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varun said 11:07AM on 10-17-2006
"I wonder if Apple has tried (or would try) to buy or rent her profile from her?"
...or more likely sue her to get it?
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nano said 2:09PM on 10-17-2006
For those of you that are curious, Apple has not tried to sue/buy/rent my myspace page, in fact I have not been contacted by Apple at all in regards to my page. I also doubt I will. For those of you that are curious as to why I chose the rednano moniker, it's easy enough, red because I'm a red-head and nano because that's been my nickname since my brother was little and counldn't pronounce my first name.
nano
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Tony C said 11:57AM on 10-17-2006
And /blacknano is taken by some 14 year old kid in Maryland...
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egordin said 12:09PM on 10-17-2006
How does one create a profile like that on MySpace? Is it possible for regular users?
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narco said 12:12PM on 10-17-2006
Believe it or not, these profiles are really effective. The whole reason people even buy the nanos is because they're small and colorful, so of course they're like, TOTALLY going to add the pink nano to their top 8, dudes. Then they're going to accessorize by creating a pink theme for their profile and their computer. Back in my day, the closest thing to that was a pair of Chucks.
As far as the people who already have the /blacknano and /rednano names, they're obviously the future head engineers for nanotechnology.
Fishes,
narco.
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Rico said 1:07PM on 10-17-2006
looks like the profiles have been removed
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samfish said 1:43PM on 10-17-2006
Man, I hate MySpace.
...but that didn't stop me from being like every other trend whore on Earth and creating an account! :-P
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Fran6 said 2:05PM on 10-17-2006
Good marketing strategy from Apple ! If there is a place on the internet where you have to be, that is myspace. Do you think other brands are going to do the same ?
Bye
Fran6
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Steven said 2:04PM on 10-17-2006
They are still there. I can view them.
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nano said 2:08PM on 10-17-2006
It's 2:05 and I have no problem seeing the ipod nano profiles on myspace, maybe they fixed an issue or something? Oh and they won't sue because I'm not trying to use the red ipod moniker to sell anything.
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Quentin said 3:24PM on 10-17-2006
Now, if everyone takes the design philosphies of Apple and apply in to their MySpace pages, the world will be a better place.
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M4cb0y said 9:54PM on 10-17-2006
Wow, that's the first good looking profile I've ever seen on MySpace!
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