Feeder 1.0 was released on February 9, 2005, which makes it 1 year old today. When I released that version I had no idea how things would turn out, nor could I have ever imagined the reality.

First and foremost I must say thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who has bought, plugged and supported Feeder. Without you, none of this would have happened and I don’t know what I would be doing now. But this blog post isn’t about me, it’s all about the birthday boy.

So, how has Feeder done in its first year? In the podcasting world Feeder is a big hit. I’ve often mentioned that podcasts such as TWiT and the MacCast use Feeder along with countless others on this blog, but how about that Tony Blair podcast by The Sun or Rolling Stone magazine’s Bono interviews?

The first podcaster I knew who picked up Feeder and someone who remains a huge supporter is Paul Figgiani of The.Point Podcast. Paul is amongst the few Feeder users I’ve been lucky enough to meet in person, along with Adam Christianson and Paul Saurini of Barefoot Radio.

Outside of the podosphere, Feeder is used by The Omni Group for their news feed, in ThinkMac’s Icon Store and by Griffin Technologies. Something different? How about the official Nine Inch Nails site or the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Interact pages. Big corps? Honda uses it for their world news feed and I’m told it’s used internally at Apple Europe and at mobile phone company Orange.

There are so many other Feeder users out there that I can’t possibly mention them all, but they include indie Mac developers, schools, universities, churches, photographers, designers, tourism sites, MUGs (Mac User Groups), clubs and societies, musicians and just people syndicating news stories that interest them for their friends and family. It’s amazing.

Feeder has also made various appearances in print. Feeder appeared in the Podcast Solutions book by The Bitterest Pill‘s Dan Klass and Reel Reviews‘ Michael Geoghegan. Its first review appeared in MacUser UK (subscription required), followed by Macworld UK, as a Mac Gem in Macworld US and SVM Mac (PDF link) in France. When reviewed in PC Magazine, Feeder was rated higher than two of its Windows-based counterparts with the only “con” being that it was Mac-only – and that’s got to make any Mac user smile (particularly this one).

A good start, I’d say. Happy birthday Feeder!

PodcastUser Magazine has published its first issue, which is available as a free PDF download. New issues of the monthly magazine can be delivered automatically via enclosures in the magazine’s RSS feed. The first issue includes news, equipment and podcast reviews and other thoughtful articles.

PodcastUser Magazine is edited by Paul Nicholls (aka Podcast Paul), and features contributions from a number of well known British podcasters, including Mark Hunter of the tartanpodcast.

The magazine looks very well put together and is produced on an iMac with the very cool Writely used for online collaboration.

(Via Podcasting News).

Transistr is the new name for iPodderX, which had to be changed following Apple Legal’s intervention.

That’s pretty good, considering Thunderstone Media‘s own requirement not to have “pod” in the name, even if it does remind one of Flickr. They don’t even need to change the Bryan Bell-designed icon.

Maybe I should rename Feeder to Feedr, so I can have Technorati tags that don’t bring me hundreds of posts on bird feeders.

(It’s OK, I’m not going to do that!)

Via TUAW.

This could be old news but I just noticed that the latest version of Safari (2.0.3) supports enclosures, which is something that used to bring me a lot of feedback (i.e. the enclosure doesn’t show up in Safari, must be Feeder’s fault).

While Safari doesn’t have any way to automatically download enclosures, this feature will help make more sense of podcast feeds and is very useful for appcasting feeds, as seen above (from my main site’s news feed).

Often on this blog or on my news pages I plug interesting and different podcasts whose feeds are created by Feeder, but since Feeder can create any RSS feed it’s nice to see it being used for the purpose that made me come up with the idea in the first place: to create a product news RSS feed on a web site (i.e. mine!).

Gaucho Software is now using Feeder to create news feeds and Seasonality, created by Mike Piatek-Jimenez, definitely counts as something interesting and different.

Seasonality is a very impressive weather monitoring app that shows comprehensive summaries, forecasts, maps with satellite imagery and radar, graphs for temperature, wind speed and direction, atmospheric pressure, daylight hours and local time. The best part is that it wraps all this information in a slick interface that is easy on the eye and has lots of neat tricks to keep everything manageable. Kudos!