Darren McCarra, Author at McCarra.co

Personal cloud service Jolicloud Me hits 100,000 user mark Jolicloud Me, a personal cloud service that attempts to organise your online assets across the social web, has reached 100,000 users after being released in private beta less than one month ago. No responses 13th April 2012
Google Analytics used on over 10 million websites During Google's Q1 2012 earnings call, Chief Business Officer Nikesh Arora revealed that Google Analytics, Google's website statistics service, is used on over 10 million websites. No responses 13th April 2012
StumbleUpon upgrades Facebook Timeline app to include frictionless sharing StumbleUpon has become the latest service to enable Facebook frictionless sharing via an update to its Facebook app. Now, Stumblers can decide to share all their StumbleUpon activity seamlessly to Facebook Timeline. 4 responses 12th April 2012
A creative Twitter campaign that's really Smart It's great to see social media innovation among companies and especially so within the perceived limitations of Twitter's 140 characters. No responses 11th April 2012
Instagram's zero to $1 billion valuation within 19 months [Infographic] Instagram has always been a stand-out app ever since it first launched on the iPhone in October 2010. Some 19 months later, however, who'd have thought it would be acquired by Facebook for $1 billion? No responses 11th April 2012
Hands on: Chrome OS gets a desktop and windows Chrome OS, Google's open-source operating system developed solely for the purpose of running web applications, has gotten its first major interface redesign since public launch in June of last year. 4 responses 10th April 2012
How much is a single tweet or Facebook status update worth? Every time you tweet, post a Facebook status update or pin something on Pinterest, you help contribute to that respective company's revenue. But just how much? Is it possible to express, in terms of revenue, the value of a single tweet, for example? No responses 9th April 2012
Wikipedia updates mobile apps, ditches Google Maps Wikipedia released updates to both its Android and iOS apps earlier this week. In the process they decided, as others have, to ditch Google Maps in favour of OpenStreetMap. 13 responses 7th April 2012
Pinterest is already fourth largest social network Pinterest may have already become the fourth largest social network in the United States despite being less than two years old. Data from both Alexa, a web statistics firm, and DoubleClick Ad Planner suggests it has. No responses 6th April 2012
Amazon's video service now available on PlayStation 3 Amazon Instant Video, Amazon's version of Netflix, is now available to stream on the PS3. Previously, the video on-demand service was only available on select connected TVs, and select set-top boxes and Blu-ray players. No responses 5th April 2012