Touch Podium Turns One Year Old Today!

by Jody Mitoma on January 14, 2009 at 10:17 pm

Today we have the excitement of celebrating an entire year in writing. Writing and posting about all things iPhone and iPod Touch related, that is. That’s right folks, Touch Podium is turning one year old today, and we’re very excited for an entirely new year of blogging!

On January 14th, 2008, Jody Mitoma (hey, that’s me!) started a blog he called iPod Touched, on the WordPress.com servers. At the time, I didn’t have the money to purchase my own hosting, and so I started small, just like I’m sure most of you other bloggers out there did. Not even a couple of weeks later, I found Eric (a.k.a. Mindfield), who is, to this day, a great friend and business partner. When we started off with iPod Touched, we didn’t know a thing about each other, whilst today, an entire year later, we’ve become friends, and even met one another!

Eric had the brilliant idea of changing the title of our blog to Touch Podium, which I must agree, sounds much better than iPod Touched. What was I thinking? Hehe.. Weeks after Eric’s addition to the blog, we moved our Touch Podium blog from the WordPress.com servers, onto our own purchased servers from BlueHost.com, at the same time, making the transition to WordPress.com.

Between the first couple of months in existence, we must of changed the Touch Podium layout at least five or six times, when we’ve finally decided to stick with the current layout that we’ve been running for at least half a year now.

From day one, to now, we’ll admit, we’ve also gone through a lot of writers/authors. I swear to you, I’m sure we’ve tried out at least seven or eight other writers, besides ourselves, but regret to inform, that none of them met up with what we were looking for.

As you can see from the post just below, Joseph Rossignol is our newest addition to the blog. Prior to Joseph being the newest writer, we also added Adam to the lineup just last week. I’d like to take a moment to quickly thank these two writers, whom by the way, live in the same province as Eric and I do, for joining us in our mission to bring the latest and greatest iPhone and iPod Touch news! So welcome aboard, and hope you enjoy the stay, you two!

Being it that Touch Podium turns one year old today, I’d like to throw out a few facts out there to all of you.

On January 6th, 2009, we’ve successfully managed to reach our 1,000,000th hit! Just eight days short of our one year in existence.

On September 28th, 2008, Eric decided to take his “The Free App Store Review” posts, which were at first being written right here on Touch Podium, and created an entirely new blog, which he named Frapstr. Frapstr has slowly, but surely been picking up on traffic, and is becoming more and more popular as each week passes. Be sure to go and check it out if you haven’t already.

Our last Touch Podium Report Card was posted on May 14th, 2008 (see here). After our fourth month of posting monthly statistics, we simply decided not to post the stats anymore, as it was irrelevant to our readers. But, reading the statistics of May 14th, and comparing them to today’s statistics, is quite interesting. Have a look for yourselves:

Blog Posts on May 14th: 686 | Today: 1,376 (including this post)
Total Site hits as of May 14th: 339,830 | Today: 1,019,972
RSS subscribers on May 14th: 264 | Today: 535
E-mail feed subscribers on May 14th: 40 | Today: 50 (this has gone nowhere)
Paid Affiliates prior to May 14th: 0 | Today: 2

Also, a few other interesting facts:

Today, we’ve made 5,025 tags since birth.
Today, we have 64 different categories.
Today, we’ve received a total of over 2,520 non-spam comments.

Anyway, I think that will be enough for facts.

On a completely different note, as most of you know, Eric and I are still working on our secret project, which we imagine should be completed sometime before April. We cannot say exactly what it is we’re working on, but I’m sure many of you will like what we’ve got in stock. What I can say, is that we’ve been working on this damn project for months now, and little by little, we get closer and closer to completion, but still, we’ve got a few months of production to go.

There will be a few sneak peeks at what we’ve got in the works in a month or so, but other than that, I cannot say any more.

Thank you, readers, for visiting Touch Podium, and bringing us where we are to this day. Without you, we wouldn’t be what we are today, and that, by the way, is within the top 225,000 websites on the entire Internet. Just to make a mental picture of where that puts us on a world-wide, or, should I say, Internet-wide scale… There are at least 5 billion websites on the Internet as of now. Being it that we are in the top 225,000, that puts us in the top 1% of all websites in existence.

Good evening, and good night!

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