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Flashback Friday Funk

Friday, July 16th, 2010

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 [...]

Friday Funk: Speed Controls

Friday, April 16th, 2010

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 [...]

Friday Funk: Google Street View – Best of the Hilarious and Just Plain Weird

Friday, April 9th, 2010

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. [...]

Your Weekly Facebook Page Update: What’s the Deal?

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

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 [...]

Can You Actually Be On Facebook Too Much?

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

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 [...]

The Value of Social Media

Monday, February 15th, 2010

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 [...]

What’s All the Buzz About?

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

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 [...]

Happy New Year: A Quick Thought

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

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 [...]

Share Twitter “Tweets” via LinkedIn Profile

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

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 [...]