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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Source: http://www.myspace.com/greennano

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M4cb0y

Wow, that's the first good looking profile I've ever seen on MySpace!

October 17 2006 at 9:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Quentin

Now, if everyone takes the design philosphies of Apple and apply in to their MySpace pages, the world will be a better place.

October 17 2006 at 2:26 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

nano

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.

October 17 2006 at 2:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Steven

They are still there. I can view them.

October 17 2006 at 2:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Fran6

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

October 17 2006 at 2:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

samfish

Man, I hate MySpace.

...but that didn't stop me from being like every other trend whore on Earth and creating an account! :-P

October 17 2006 at 1:43 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Rico

looks like the profiles have been removed

October 17 2006 at 1:07 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

narco

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.

October 17 2006 at 12:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

egordin

How does one create a profile like that on MySpace? Is it possible for regular users?

October 17 2006 at 12:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tony C

And /blacknano is taken by some 14 year old kid in Maryland...

October 17 2006 at 11:52 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply