It’s always fun to write the first post on a blog…

First of all: welcome to the Video-Alerts blog! Here you’ll find some inside information, and also possible video related news. I’ll see how this blog evolves.

You might want to know why the Video-Alerts service? As someone who maintains  a blog (well, several of them, really), I wanted to know when new interesting videos are released. Being the first one to post a new video can be great - other blogs might pick it up and give you the credit, and of course your readers will be the first to watch, which makes them feel good about subscribing to your blog.

Google has their own video alerts service (part of Google Alerts). But it wasn’t good enough - they only send alerts on “popular” videos. That means that:

• Some videos you won’t know about at all
• You’ll only get an alert once a video becomes popular - so you won’t be the first!

At first I developed this service for myself… after using it for a while, I decided to let others enjoy it too.  After getting a domain, a quick design and a logo, Video-Alerts was born.

I hope you’ll enjoy it, please tell me if you find any bugs, have suggestions or new feature requests - or just want to say hello!

So that’s it. Happy holidays, and a happy new year, too!

Ron