Mediafax Monitorizare launched today a social media monitoring service, which will monitor in real-time over 27,000 blogs and almost 12,000 Twitter accounts in Romanian. The service will start at 100 Euros per month. The new service, Mediafax Monitorizare (www.monitorizare.mediafax.biz) conducts searches and analyses based on keywords defined by the clients. Data are archived; trends can be monitored.

Google has launched Google Alerts in Arabic. Now you can find content in Arabic and monitor your brand mentions in this language throughout the Arab world. To read the original article, click here

An introduction to social media monitoring and JamiQ.com in Singapore with co-founder Benjamin Koe. To read the original article, click here

A substantial (104 slides) presentation by Leonardo Bellini, in Italian. Bellini provides an overview of social media monitoring. To read the original article, click here

There are 7 million people from the Arab world on Facebook, and hundreds of thousands of blogs published by people in Arab countries. MediaWatch just launched SocialEyez, the first dedicated social media monitoring service to capture and analyze Arabic content online. This article in Mashable provides details about the types of account available. To read the original article, click here

A presentation by John Wang from Sinotech Group about the importance of social media measurement, and the capabilities of the China-centric SinoBuzz platform. To read the original article, click here

Daqi’s Zhou Lei introduce Daqi’s tools and services that enable brands and agencies to keep track of the proliferating online discussion. She shares some examples from auto/IT/FMCG case studies and describes Daqi’s methodology for monitoring social media. To read the original article, click here

The authors used computational social network mapping in combination with human and automated content analysis to analyze the Iranian blogosphere. In contrast to the conventional wisdom that Iranian bloggers are mainly young democrats critical of the regime, they found a wide range of opinions representing religious conservative points of view as well as secular and reform-minded ones, and topics ranging [...]