While webmasters are able to support the OccupyInter.net protest on their sites, the other 99%* of netizens out there also need a way to armchair participate. For those netizens like , we are offering browser extensions to take over a show your protest for sites across the web while being able to see the volume of other netizens also protesting your favorite sites.
Download the browser extension for your browser, tell your friends, and continue to support the Internet Occupation!
New features for Chrome and Firefox include the ability to right-click to see the number of protesters that have occupied the current page, as well as selection options to control the loudness of the protesting crowd!
Code by Greg Leuch and Theo Watson
Extensions code: github.com/gleuch/occupy-internet-extensions
Server code: github.com/gleuch/occupy-internet-server
Concept development by Theo, Jerry, Jamie, Greg, Evan and Aram.
License under MIT License
Force-occupy any website! “Occupy The Internet – The Service”
This is how it works:
Recapitulation: More than 100 webmasters have joined the online protest and added the animated GIF army to their websites today. A Safari Extension and a Chrome Extension have been released (Major Firefox Add-on by @gleuch coming-up next)
Credits: This service is part of “Occupy The Internet”, a F.A.T. Lab Production. Collaborators:Theo, Jerry, Jamie, Greg, Evan, Aram and Tobias.
This specific part was created by Tobias and the awesome COLO
Are you a “webmaster”, admin, blog owner or someone with access to index.html files? Are you interested in taking part in the recent global wave of revolution from the comfort of your home computer?
Add the animated GIF army to websites you control (or can get control of) by pasting the following code into any HTML file:
UPDATE (10-20-2011): Occupy Service!
Force-occupy any website with “Occupy The Internet – The Service”.
Just insert a URL and send-out the link! fffff.at/occupy
• Example: Goldmansachs.com occupied!!!
UPDATE (10-19-2011): Occupy Plugin!
Occupy any site with the Occupy The Internet browser plugin ( beta ):
• Safari: download beta plugin here | source code here.
( to install unzip and drag into safari ).
• FireFox: Coming Soon.
• Chrome: Coming Soon.
UPDATE (10-24-2011)
* stats = occupyinter.net/stats — over 5 million GIFs served!
* full list of occupied sites = occupyinter.net/sites
Websites currently being occupied:
***UPDATE***
After overwhelming response this list has become too cumbersome to manually update. All occupied websites should now be automatically added to http://occupyinter.net/sites (and /stats) thanks to Jamie.
To add your occupied website to this list please post a link in the comments, send an email to or tweet us @FFFFFAT
If you would like to contribute animated GIF occupation soldiers please leave URLs in the comment thread of this post where they will be called up for duty. Note: images should have transparent backgrounds.
Source code: github.com/jamiew/occupyinter.net
A F.A.T. Lab Production
Concept development by Theo, Jerry, Jamie, Greg, Evan and Aram.
Code development by Jamie and Greg.
In September FAT participated at “Meeting Hub“, a hacker’s festival arranged by Platform4. Platform4 is a non-profit art and technology organisation which runs a gigantic open-space in Aalborg, Denmark. Defnetly check it out when visiting Denmark!
The following projects were created with the help of Platform 4:
Geraldine Juárez tinkered a little mobile device – the FAT CRIER – to amplify information gathered from Twitter trough a megaphone so it can be brought it to the streets. The original FAT CRIER is a commissioned piece created for PLATFORM4 and will be installed on their warehouse for everyone to use. A second workshop is coming-up on the 22nd of October!!
Evan Roth created “Multi Finger Touch Paintings” “Paintings created by performing routine tasks on multi-touch hand held computing devices.”
*FB Resistance is research initiative accepting the status quo of Facebook being the dominant social identity management system, researching on the ways to change its rules and functionality from inside the system. More about FB Resistance
More: View @tbx’s photos or @fi5e’s Photos or read Chris Villum’s afterthoughts here
The expressions published in this site are all in the public domain. You may enjoy, use, modify, snipe about and republish all F.A.T. media and technologies as you see fit.