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We were playing with this website we’ve known for a while now: http://web.archive.org/ and thought it would be a ton of fun to share with our readers what Upright’s home page looked like when the company first started in 1996. Take a tour through our flashback time machine. 1996 2001 2004 2010 Be sure to [...]

A lot of us have been driving for a while now and may have a speeding ticket or two.  I know I do.  To make myself feel a little better about breaking the law & being punished for it, I found that 1 in 6 people will receive a speeding ticket this year.  That does [...]

Big Brother, er, um, Google… sends their vehicles all over the world to capture images of our fair planet in an effort to provide a great visual map for it’s users. We look forward to sites like StreetViewFunny where people share all sorts of hilarious and interesting Google Street View shots from around the world. [...]

You may have received an email yesterday or the day before from Facebook that caused you to delete it, thinking it was spam.  In fact, it’s just the opposite.  Though this feature hasn’t been formally announced by Facebook themselves, it’s part of a bigger plan called “Post Insights” that was introduced in February.  Facebook appears [...]

As we have said before in previous blog posts, Facebook is the world’s largest social media networking site, with over 400 million users.  The average user in the United States is a female between the ages of 25 and 34.  From 2008 to 2009, total minutes spent on Facebook increased from 1.7 billion to 13.9 [...]

Not on the Social Media bandwagon?  Check out what Nielsen Online, the global leader in media information, is saying:  It may be time to hop on. In terms of “traditional media”, first came the radio, taking 38 years to capture an audience of 50 million.  Then came the television, which took 13 years to capture [...]

Today, Google announces their latest Google Buzz.  In the past, Bradley Horowitz, Google’s vice president for product management, dreamed for Google to have a platform that allowed its users to share experiences, much like Facebook and Twitter.  Horowitz’s dreams came true. Google Buzz allows you to “follow” people as well as have them “follow” you [...]

I remember very vividly watching New Years celebrations around the world on December 31, 1999.  My extended family was holed up in a mountain cabin in Pigeon Forge, TN.  At the time, my Grandpa had gotten me so confused about Y2K that I was thrilled that countries in earlier time zones “had survived.”  The fireworks [...]

Twitter and LinkedIn have teamed up.  A new LinkedIn feature enables a tweet from your Twitter profile to also appear as your LinkedIn status message automatically. Upright blogger & SEO Director Allison Kulage first mentioned this new feature in her webinar last week.  Now, we can share online articles with business contacts or take Twitter [...]