so is this an...iGift?

Woww
I wonder how much he spent in AdWords ;-)

I second Tom's question. I bet it takes some big bucks to buy a little iPod nano. Still a nice thought though. I give Ford Motor Company millions of dollars in business every year and they don't send me anything.

Shakakai: This is an iPod Shuffle, not a Nano. Still a nice touch, though. I wonder how much Shimon Sandler spent, too.

its a prank right

Harold: my coworkers received a gift from google in similar packaging. It was no ipod; instead a translucent digital picture frame.

that's great

woah. cool. digital pic frame.

Umm, not a shuffle:
http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/

or is that the packaging?

peekay: It's quite clearly an iPod Shuffle in a plastic packaging frame. Just *look* at the iPod in the post; it matches the image of the iPod Shuffle from Apple's site perfectly.

You could also just read the post. It *says* that it's an iPod Shuffle. I don't think Shimon would mistake a Nano for a Shuffle, do you?

man, that is nice packaging. google must have a team dedicated to gift giving/being classy.

I also got a Google gift sent to my Malaysia office. It's a digital photo frame. A copy of the pic can be seen in my blog here

http://www.eonenet.com/internet_marketing_blog/2006/12/18/i-got-a-google-2006-gift/

I do both Google AdWords and AdSense.

for india they had gifted a digital photo

The ones we got were all engraved "ooGleg thanks you". It's shuffled, y'see!

Like this: http://www.simplesem.com/blog/2006/oogleg-thanks-you/ ?

yep, just like that. It'd have been more amusing if they'd been shuffled a different way.

Nice :)