A group hug and general hip-hip hooray for two members of the Middle East startup community:

Woopra, in my opinion the most exciting internet startup coming out of the Middle East today, have taken their real-time web traffic monitoring system out of beta and unleashed it on the big wide world. Until now the service has been in trial mode, open only to beta testers on free accounts (more than 85,000 web publishers signed up, with a long waiting list). But as of last night, Woopra is now open for business - check this post on the Woopra blog for all the details.

And ArabCrunch, a great resource for the regional startup community, has also reached something of a milestone, launching a new Arabic-language site. Aside from being a translated version of the original site, it will cover international startup / dotcom news in Arabic, targeting an audience that still has plenty of room to grow. It is also open to contributions from the community.  Here's a post from ArabCrunch explaining the new site.