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Weekend Web Wroundup - Part I

Welcome to our first installment of what may (possibly) be a regular feature here on All Shook Down - the Weekend Web Wroundup. GET IT? You see, the name mimics the "www" of the "world wide web" and therefore it...oh FINE. I couldn't think of anything better so Weekend Web Wroundup it is.The WWW (se ... More >>

Schadenfreude at Woman's Lascivious Facebook Mishap May Be Misplaced -- She Says Hackers are to Blame

Whoever coined the phrase 'Love Cave,' this ain't what (s)he meant​Tracy Turkish Brooks became an instant Internet sensation last week when a steamy post that appeared on her Facebook wall went viral. The X-rated missive, followed by a message that made it appear that Brooks accidentally wrote the ... More >>

'Anonymous' Anti-Scientologists Subject of Academic Paper

​At the Pacific Sociological Association conference in Oakland today, a gaggle of academics from the U.C. Irvine will be presenting their research on the Anonymous protesters of the Church of Scientology, the movement we covered in a 2008 cover story. The paper is titled "Project Chanology, Scient ... More >>

What Privacy Settings?! Kate's Party and the Problem With Facebook Privacy

Image via The Window Of Bilby​ Meet Kate. Kate created an event on Facebook for her birthday party and forgot to select the closed button. Four days and a bunch of 4chan links later, she faced over 60,000 RSVPs as well as a bunch of viral offshoot groups like "Help Clean Up After Kate's Party." T ... More >>

Fast Company Influence Project Pisses Off Online Influencers

You can add another entry to the annals of botched social media campaigns; Fast Company and San Francisco based digital marketing agency Mekanism turned Fast Company readers into digital guinea pigs this morning with The Influence Project, an ornate marketing rickroll where users had to register the ... More >>