Darren McCarra, Author at McCarra.co

Facebook's subscribe feature is proving very popular, especially among journalists Facebook's subscribe button, which can be suitably compared to Twitter's follow button, is proving very popular indeed, allowing users to subscribe to the public updates of prominent figures and personalities on Facebook. No responses 26th January 2012
Blue Marble 2012: The "most amazing" image of the Earth yet NASA has released another stunning Blue Marble image of the Earth, describing it as the "most amazing highest resolution" image yet. 4 responses 25th January 2012
Street View arrives in South Korea, 24 new cities worldwide get 45° imagery Google Street View has arrived in South Korea for the first time, with explorable street-level imagery available for Korea's two largest cities; Busan and Seoul. No responses 25th January 2012
Ireland faces its own SOPA battle Before the end of January Ireland will have enacted its own SOPA-style legislation - without discussion or vote in the Oireachtas, the Irish parliament - allowing parts of the internet deemed to aid piracy or infringe copyright to be censored from the Irish public. 8 responses 24th January 2012
FileSonic disables sharing in wake of MegaUpload shut-down FileSonic has disabled its public file sharing service in the wake of MegaUpload's very public shut-down late last week. Instead, users are limited to only being able to retrieve files that they have uploaded themselves. 9 responses 23rd January 2012
New Google Account sign-ups are forced to join Google+ Web users creating Google Accounts for the first time are automatically dispensed with associated Gmail and Google+ accounts, with no option to opt-out, further enforcing the emerging paradigm that Google is Google+. 2 responses 20th January 2012
Google begins to penalise sites with little content "above the fold" Google Search has announced an algorithmic change that now considers page layout an influence of page rank. More specifically, sites with little content "above the fold" - the area of a website that is immediately visible without scrolling - may not rank as highly from today onwards. 4 responses 20th January 2012
China approaches one billion mobile subscribers China recorded 973.7 million mobile subscribers at the end of 2011, and is on track to surpass the one billion connections milestone by early spring, according to a report by Wireless Intelligence. No responses 19th January 2012
IPv6 world launch date set for June Building on the success of last summer's World IPv6 Day - when the world's largest internet companies took the next-generation internet protocol for a 24-hour test-drive - the Internet Society has scheduled its official, co-ordinated launch for June 6, 2012. No responses 18th January 2012
Cost of Facebook advertising on the rise The cost of advertising on Facebook is rising, with the average cost per click increasing as much as 45% in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to a report from Facebook advertising technology firm TBG Digital. 12 responses 17th January 2012