Social Networking Alerts?

[curtiss]

Since the majority of you guys are much more involved in the social networking scene than I am, I would like to pose this question to you:

Are there any tools similar to Google Alerts that can monitor the social networking sites for the use of specific keywords and report back to you whenever they're found?

I realize that Google Alerts will search any information available to the public, so that should include a great deal of the MySpace content, but what about sites that generally require you to login?

Is there a way to configure Google Alerts to authenticate properly on these sites, or is there some tool for these sites that can be configured to do so?

[Leprakawn]

I am not very familiar with myspace, but would the individuals have to allow GA to access their pages in the first place?

[Allen]

hmm - good question - i think the difficulty here would be that many profiles are secured to only friends.

let me ask some of the CN readers that I know and try to find out for you.