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Mytego Nation (MYTEGO.COM) continues to grow on the web

2010-09-16T03:45:00.004-05:00

Mytego.com, the world best creator of skins for portable electronics continues to expand its presence around the web. Mytego, renowned for its ability to put the power of design into the consumer hands, allows consumers the ability to customize any skin for any device. Skins, stickers or covers for all electronic devices can now be created - new devices like the Apple Ipad, Apple Iphone 4, Macbook - to name a few. Once each design is made by the customer on the website, www.mytego.com, each order is then manufactured individually for the customer and delivered right to their door. This is mass-customization at its finest!

Here are the sites that Mytego.com is developing on the web, to further build on the MYTEGO NATION! This includes all of the must have social network sites like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Blogspot, Word Press, Flickr, etc.

Twitter
Facebook
Youtube channel
Flickr mytego search
Word press blog
Blogger Blogspot blog

Join the REVOLUTION. VIVA LA MYTEGO NATION

The Real Skins with ultimate customization from mytego

2010-09-15T08:32:00.000-05:00

Yes, we have all heard it before - what exactly is a custom skin, and what is a real custom skin? Is there really a difference and, more importantly, why should we care about it?

Custom can mean so many things to different people. The simple explanation of a custom skin is simply changing the colors with a simple design - when you pick up a new pink leopard print off the shelf - is that real customization? Is it a custom skin? perhaps, but only for those who think simplistically. Mytego believes that customization can go much much deeper than that. Customization is more about what you create and design for yourself. Where else can you do this than with a custom skin designer studio available from mytego.com. This custom designer studio allows for every customer to get exactly what they want... because they design it completely themselves, with their own artwork, photographs, designs, graphics... you name it!

The cool thing is that now you can get some real customization with the special design it yourself studio. It will work for all of the devices on the market - including the apple ipad, the apple iphone, macbooks, laptops, cell phones etc.

Can you imagine what it is like to have real customization? Now you can have a chance at it only at mytego.com

Apple Ipad Skins

2010-09-12T10:20:00.004-05:00

For a good time, scratch here:

www.apple-ipad-skins.com

Skins, covers, stickers for the one and only apple ipad.

Design them completely yourself. Completely customized by you.

Apple iPad Skins

Mytego.com Launches new Tego Skins for the Apple Ipad

2010-09-12T09:37:00.004-05:00

http://www.apple-ipad-skins.com/

Mytego gives you the chance to create and design your own custom skin for your new apple iPad. You can easily skin your iPad with as many designs as you like. Whether it's your own artwork, or something that you found that would look fantastic on it, you can skin it now with a custom vinyl cover only from Mytego.com

Whether it is the 16GB, 32GB or 64GB version of the Apple iPad, you can easily create your own skin, cover or sticker using our unique skin designer that you create entirely yourself.

Mytego.com uses high quality 3M™ Controltac vinyl, ensuring that you get the best in printing graphics and durability. It's easy to apply and allows you to remove it whenever, for whatever reason, without leaving a sticky residue.

http://www.Mytego.com

Design custom skins for your other gear - Only at Mytego - the best and only place for real skins, covers and stickers
phones | laptops | mp3 players | game systems
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Missing all these years!

2010-04-17T21:08:00.002-05:00

Wow - we've been quiet for quite some time... but actually we've been "working in the background" - yah, right! Seriously though, I guess we've been all over the web, but missed this blog for a while. It's one of those things that if you are not active in it, you simply seem to forget it over time. So, what can you do? Well, you could simply stop and delete everything, leave it as it is, OR pick things up where you last left them off!

That's what we are going to do... keep things rolling. I think twitter was invented after our last post, so man are we ever slow! But hey, skins weren't exactly made in a day either, right - it took millenia to actually invent the iphone so that we could put a skin on it!

Here are some of the links, so that you can see that we have actually been working on something all these years. Have fun and enjoy!

Mytego Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?profile=1&id=6586438350#!/pages/Mytegocom-Wutz-on-UR-Skin/6586438350
http://bit.ly/ddNGhk

Twitter (mytego)
http://twitter.com/mytegonation
http://bit.ly/binvdg

Youtube mytego
http://www.youtube.com/user/mytego
http://bit.ly/c3BOr3

Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mytegonation/
http://bit.ly/cvBpCO

Blogger.com
http://mytegonation.blogspot.com/
http://bit.ly/biEUwo

Let me know if we missed any links here... we're testing them all out!!!

You are monotonous and boring - why the simple white iPod is your fault.

2008-07-31T12:52:00.007-05:00

Expressions of human creativity options in our flood of consumer electronic products are severely limited this year, once again, despite the new array of apple products that hit the store shelves last fall and this spring. This coming Christmas will be no different, which will be decidedly and distinctively boring! For all the new apple iphone 3G users - you can be grouped in here as well. Yes, the design is very technical; matte pastels, black, white and shiny, large clear screens and in some cases fewer buttons. But what is the customer really getting? Is the new iPod age of fashion and style expected to be this boring and relentless?

A new Ipod Nano, Ipod Classic, Ipod itouch, or the multifunction gadget the iphone, or the latest iPhone 3G - the sameness is too apparent. A box that carries music or allows you to talk with others; nothing more and nothing less. Everyone talks style and fashion, but they don't walk it. With millions of these devices out in the market, what can possibly distinguish your teal ipod from the other hordes with a teal colored ipod? Nothing in my mind. The interesting thing is that the people who get these devices, want several things in particular by getting into this group - prestige, yet everyone has them as well, so what is so prestigious about it?

Despite apple marketing the product as a possessive "I" in ipod, there really is nothing here to instil the "I" for imagination, or even better, "I" for individual. What about "my" style for my own ipod? Everyone knows this - the "I" in iPod is simply for apple "income".

So who's fault is it? Well, if you go back to the use of the mass-production assembly line with Ford, didn't he say something that "you can have it in any color you want, as long as it is black". So, does this mean that we have not evolved any further? Yes! However, for those who are looking out for the next big thing - don't think mass-production; think mass-customization… mass-production is far too easy for any 3rd world (and, as we have seen with apple, any 1st world) company to start-up and run, but not very effective for the consumer where everyone walks around with exactly the same thing. And yes, I am part of the problem too - I too have the iPhone, and a couple iPods - but mine are uniquely different and way cooler than yours...

Since the Renaissance, humans have supposedly perpetuated creativity into their daily lives. This pattern, that shade, this painting, that fabric design and the list goes on. Yet suddenly it has ended with the arrival of the ipod. White, black, and now a few muted simple colors. A rainbow perhaps, some will say? Maybe a 6 flavoured Skittles™ rainbow, but that is about that. Not an explosion of color and creativity by far. The failure to capture the artistic and creative side of humans is not entirely Apple's own fault - all MP3 manufacturers like iRiver, Sony, Creative, etc. can share the same blame. Like I mentioned, mass-production is easy, just color it 1 or 2 colors and you've got a hot seller (thanks again, Mr. Ford)!

In light of this, a trend that is taking shape is people's desire to continue the creative renaissance on their own, with their own personal ipods and MP3 players. Despite consumer electronics manufacturers like apple, consumers are using this boring white space as their own visual canvas. Consumers can now use the exterior surface of their ipod as a canvas to paint with, and delight themselves with their own fascinations, creativity, fashion and style. There are numerous examples of this, by enhancing the surface of the ipod - jewels, engraving, cases and vinyl skins. Skins have been the only tool however that allows for the most sophisticated level of personalization and customization, with visual imagery.

Gaining popularity, these self-adhesive vinyl skins can be found for a wider range of portable electronic products, including cell phones, laptops, game systems, etc. Sadly, limitations still exist with most skin manufacturers with "premade" off-the-shelf designs such as yellow flowers, blue pocka-dots, or green stripes; the same conundrum exists, where the skin designs are made by some buyer or graphic designer in some unknown locale. This again is the failure of mass-production; a mass-production company simply has no real idea as to what each customer wants or needs to truly reflect their style, and then has the gall to manufacture millions of them as a mass-produced nightmare for the masses.

That being said, there are a few companies like mytego.com and skinit.com that offer skin customization to the consumers. This means that each consumer can actually design a skin, exactly the way that they want - not from some premade design that may not fit their own definitions of style and coolness. Whether it is a new and hot fashion pattern, or a picture of themselves with their friends at the beach - people can actually use any visual design that they have to be creative, and style up their ipods with anything imaginable. These companies have entered the world of mass-customization - where the customer truly chooses what it is that they want, and when exactly they want it.

One of the leading custom skins manufacturers, mytego.com, like skinit, takes this one step further with complete customer-designed and customized skins for their customer's own ipods. Colloquially called the "Tego", mytego.com provides the online tools for anyone, regardless of fashion sense or creative license, to design and create exactly what they want their TEGO skin to look like, with absolutely no limitations, except that of their own imagination. Mytego then manufactures each Tego skin specifically for that person, and ships it promptly to them.

Designs are finally able to reflect the personal tastes and styles of each and every customer, without end. This is the brave new world of mass-customization and the growing power of the consumer; the ultimate choice of design and style by every individual person - the power of the consumer to make their own choices. Despite starting the world as a white or black apple orb, most consumers are quickly making sense enough of it in time to say, "this is mine, and I want it to look exactly the way that I want".

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You're not cool - I am. What is cool & finding the cool factor.

2008-07-21T16:57:00.007-05:00

I'm a firm believer in the fact that every single one of us thinks that we are in fact "cool". I think, err, know, that I am cool because of the clothes that I wear, my long hair is cool, what I do is cool, how I do things, etc. Everything about me is sheer and utter coolness! I live cool and I breath cool. I even bleed cool. I'll bet that I am way cooler than you. How do I know this? Well, because I am cool. Simple. Right!

You're probably thinking, what the heck is this guy talking about; 'I'm way cooler than him'. 'My coolness is scales above this guy'. Or, 'what makes this dweeb think that he is so cool?'. Or the ultimate coolness challenge to anyone - 'prove you are cooler than me'. Is there ever any downtime for being cool?

Here is the formula for Coolness (which is pretty close to the square root of pi, but then again trigonometry is pretty cool)

5% aspiration + 95% self-perception + 10% public awareness + 46% individuality + 15% actions + 22% verbal + 99% what others think about you.

Wait, this doesn't add to 100% - but I guess that is my point. Coolness doesn't add up to 100 either.

So, who is really cool and who decides what is cool. Is it all just about self-awareness? Is it just about our own perception and a look into our own little worlds, that each one of us, is supposedly the master? Who can judge coolness and how do we address the coolness chasm - for those who are decidedly not cool.

Being as cool as I am, I am going to go out on a limb ('cause that's what cool people do) and give you my hypothesis of ultimate coolness. Rest assured, the fact that I am stating my opinion makes me genuinely cool, but I digress momentarily.

There is no real tangible coolness. Coolness is what you think it is. Being cool is how you perceive your world. It is all about your perception. Want to test your coolness (and my theory)? Just go ask someone if they think you are cool. They will look at you kind of funny, quickly think about potentially losing coolness by admitting to themselves that the person asking is, or could be cooler than the person being asked. And of course give you an answer - BUT, probably indirectly, such as 'your socks or shirt is cool', or the purgatory of coolness - 'maybe', or 'depends'.

Now, imagine the potential coolness conflict here - a "cool" company, asks their "cool" users whether or not they are cool. Of course, not wanting to detract from their coolness, they then say that yes, such and such idea from this cool company is in fact cool. It should sell (not like hotcakes though, as hotcakes are definitely uncool) - and of course make everyone rich. Guess what - it doesn't always happen - does that then make these people completely uncool, or just out of cool job? What if a 5 year old says, 'hey grandpa, that cane is really cool', to which grandpa then says, 'I'm going to buy some stocks in this company, because my grandson says its cool'...

The neat thing about coolness is that, like I stated, it is all about their own world. Its about coolabilty - your inner most style and sense to become instantly cool. Making the choices that reflect what they are about, and creating a personal style. Whether they are 5 or 55, and everything in between (and beyond of course, as old people can be cool too), coolness is about them and their own personal self-perceptions.

This is where the new trends of individual design, personalization and customization is getting a foothold. Does everyone have an ipod - pretty close; does everyone have a cell phone - yes. Is it not decidedly uncool though to have the exact same one that everyone else does? This means that everyone has to admit that they are no cooler than the person beside them on the bus with the same ipod. Where is the individuality in these massive groups of people? Apple would make you think from their ipod ads that all it takes is a simple silhouette with a few cool colors thrown into the mix. I guess that with this in mind, what they are really saying is that it is ok to be the same as everyone else. Uncool, perhaps? But only if you think there is a coolness scale, with 6.7 billion human graduations, which I think is pretty much everyone of us.

There are a few companies who truly "get" this customer perceived self-induced coolness - the companies that work with everyone as part of the real long tail of customization, where everyone gets their own choices to be in their own coolness, including cafepress.com and mytego.com, to name a few.

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Technorati Rules

2008-06-27T13:13:00.002-05:00

So, I am supposed to create a link to "claim" my blog from technorati. Does this mean that i get to plant a flag in it? What kind of flag?

Technorati Profile

Here goes, all ya spiders!

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What is Real Personalization!?

2008-06-16T10:56:00.001-05:00

There has been a lot of talk about personalization and customization. In some circles, personalization and customization are the same thing, and that when you customize something it is in fact personalized. So, I ask you, is a pen with your name on it personalization or customization, or neither? What about if you put some logo on it? Is it then customized? If i buy something prepackaged (like a cell phone skin) in the store, and "slap" it on - have I really customized anything, or just decorated it with someone else's design?

While it is a thin line that separates it, it is important to at least be aware of the difference. To me and our customers, customization means that you are able to design exactly what you want from scratch. Personalization then means that you and your friends can actually "define" you in your environment that you present yourself in. No one else can create the way that you do - thus when you do create something, other people can actually tell that it is you (without necessarily having a picture to tell them). Make sense? Should you care? In other words, you will be able to tell that it was your best friend that designed a Tego skin for their cellphone, because you, as their friend, can identify with the way in which they project themselves to others, in the design choices and freedom of expression that they designed with on our website. This is REAL Customization and REAL Personalization. Freeform thinking or freeform creativity could probably be a better word. Anyway you slice it - having the ultimate choice of how you want it, where you want it, what you want it to look like is completely up to our customers.

*****Non blogging blog stuff***** [attention, you are now leaving the blogging area]

More new videos on the mytego nation youtube site.

This time we added a video on putting a Tego Skin onto the Sony Playstation Portable PSP. This is the newer slim version. Fits nicely and looks cool too. We've also got a new video of a Tila Taquila Xbox 360 Guitar Hero controller Tego Skin that we designed with some hot images of the lady, Tila Taquila.

We're also trying to put a youtube feed together here; - or try the link directly http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/mytego/uploads

Almost finally - check out our latest photos on Flickr

And now our public service announcement:

Wutz on UR Skin? For those who don't know, mytego.com is the leader in real personalization of portable electronics. We help people overcome their fear of standing out and actually having their gadgets have the same style as themselves. Hard you say - no, not for us! Our customers convey their style in what they do and what they have - mytego provides the tools to make their ipod, cellphone, laptop or any other portable electronic look like it is their's and no-one else's, with a customer designed Tego Skin that goes on easy and comes off clean. Put some real style on! www.mytego.com

Mytego.com hits youtube

2008-06-10T15:30:00.000-05:00

The revelation of youtube is upon us! Mytego is finally getting with the program, and putting some web videos together. The videos are actually kind of fun to make, so you are going to see some more, and more, and more! [maybe that Hollywood career should be re-opened?!].

The first video is pretty simple, as we are just getting our feet wet and figuring out how to use the software that makes things gosh darn pretty. It is a video of an apple ipod nano (2007) [which I will add, is one of the most popular devices that people get Tego skins for]. Apple is a great company - they make these wicked devices that are like perfect as a canvas to put some nice images on with a tego skin. Plain no more! Go figure!

mytego nation youtube link

Doyle

doyle@mytego.com
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