With “we” I mean Marc Stumpel, our new team member. Marc has been researching in this field for quite some time, and has actually written his master thesis about the very same topic (MA in New Media at the University of Amsterdam).

Download it here: The Politics of Social Media. Facebook_Control and Resistance by Marc Stumpel (PDF)
NICE!

So, without further ado – Go sign up for that workshop in Bangladore if you havent’ yet

http://www.cis-india.org/events/facebook-resistance

See the full FB Resistance Berlin picture Set on Flickr

Follow twitter.com/fbresistance, Post ideas / discuss on our Facebook group, visit fbresistance.com

by Society of Algorithm

Add-on Website: http://faceleaks.info/

Direct Add-on Download

“Leak your friends – Anonymously” – A Firefox add-on that allows you to leak Facebook pictures of your friends into the archive of http://faceleaks.info/

We are going to brainstorm and draft concepts around the topic “What if you could change Facebook’s laws?” Here’s the official announcement and link to register – We’re open for 10 participants, and the results will be presented at the Festival on Saturday!

While early www networks like Geocities.com encouraged it’s users to entirely modify their online presence, Myspace.com and Web 2.0 have steered this “user generated content” into a commercially valuable structure. Facebook has finalized this “evolution” by disabling the user to do anything but feeding the system that gives FB it’s estimated value of 50 Billion US$.

Facebook is taking over the social web, and it’s design follows Mark Zuckerberg’s ideals. To quote Lawrence Lessig: “The code is law. The architectures of cyberspace are as important as the law in defining and defeating the liberties of the Net.”*1 What if you could change FB’s laws? You can! Browser extensions (e.g. Firefox Add-ons) enable us to locally modify Facebook.com and distribute it to the masses.*2

Preregistered workshop participants will learn how browser extensions (e.g. Firefox Add-Ons) enable us to locally modify Facebook.com and distribute it to the masses. In the presentation on Saturday Tobias Leingruber presents the experimental and artistic Facebook hack concepts to festival visitors before turning these concepts into a real software that users worldwide can download and share.

Example Ideas:
- Dislike Button
- Graffiti Wall (based on GML/webmarker.me)
- Auto-comment generator (e.g. LOL or Kanye West speak)
- Custom background images and visual css styling for your visitors
- Themes, e.g. change your FB’s color: pink, yellow…
-…

Register now and let’s work together!

by Eric Butler

Add-on Website: http://codebutler.com/firesheep

Direct Add-on Download

A Firefox add-on that allows you to gain access to social media accounts of people in your wifi network. It comes with a super-easy user interface, and works for every service that’s not using a secure https connection. It’s “stealing” cookie-sessions in the Network, which grant access to anything not using the https protokoll.

The project reminds me of 2 of my favorite art projects – “Men in grey” and “Pirates of the Amazon“. This security problem is common knowledge to “us” geeks, but bundeling the technical knowledge with such an easy interface, so everyone can understand and (hopefully not) exploit it… Brilliant.

It’s a scary thing, and it surely makes you think twice before loggin-in to your facebook account in a public WiFi – ALWAYS USE “https://” and you’ll be ok. Btw I just remember how some Hax0r kiddies at the 25C3 exploited a flaw on my hacked iPhone, which cost me 100€. Use your force wisely, Padawans! Exploiting [stupid politician]‘s twitter account – maybe funny. Messin-up the accounts of fellows – NOT.
//TBX

Besides a workshop and a guest presentation we’ll launch a new Browser App, THE ONE we’ve been hiding for quite some time…
The launch event will at MoFo PRIMETIME –

Saturday, 20:00-21:00h!!!

(Location: Linz, AT; Tabacco processing plant; Bulding 1, 3rd floor)

Ars it gonna be SO.MUCH.FUN – I’ll see you there!!!!!! /TBX

by Jamie Wilkinson

Add-on Website: http://jamiedubs.com/googlealarm/

You think you can browse the web without beeing on Google’s radar, just because you’re not using their products? Well. You are wrong. They got bugs everywhere.

“The Google Alarm Firefox addon visually & audibly alerts you when your personal information is being sent to Google servers.”, it also gives you a personal statistic that.

The next step seems to be clear – Allow the user to block Big G just like “Flash Block”, “Add Block plus” or “No Script”.

The Artzilla Bus is coming to London this wednesday to present the lastest and dopest browser hacks during Mozilla’s Add-on Workshop evening MAOW 2010

Send us an email, if you wanna get in, it’s already booked out, but for Artzilla fan’s we’ll do everything /TBX

Infos:
London, Wednesday 30 June, 2010
6:30pm – 11:30pm
Hub Kings Cross, 34b York Way, London N1 9AB, UK G Maps

Hey! We’ve been secretly working on a new + super-fun Add-on. It’s still in early alpha, so we won’t really publicize it or talk about it online yet. Nevertheless our friend and curator Aram Bartholl talked us into sneak-previewing it tonight in his new “Speed Show” format.

It’s quite an awesome concept, he curates cool online-based art work and exhibits it in an “internet café”, which he rents out entirely for the night of the show. Art in an internet café? Maxium culture clash Many more Speed-Shows to come! Tonight’s topic is “TELE INTERNET – Pop.Net.Art” featuring some of TBX’s favourite artists and friends.

So if you like to see what the Artzilla Crew has been secretly working on, and what will be closed-beta in hopefully 3 months, than you should come here tonight:

Friday 11th of June 2010, 21:00 – 00:00
Kottbusser Damm 103, Berlin (G-maps)

More infos here:http://fffff.at/speed-show/

by Jess3 and Greg Leuch

Add-on Website: http://jess3.com/oil/

Direct Download

The Black Oil Firefox add-on replaces all mentions of BP and accompanying terms like BP oil, BP gas, BP worldwide, and so on, with blacked out letters and dripping oil drops. (Released through Jess3.com, Coded BY and based on Greg Leuch’s Shaved Bieber Add-on)

by Greg Leuch

Add-on Website: http://fffff.at/shaved-bieber/

Direct Download

Annoyed by 16yr old Singer Justin Bieber beeing all over your internets? We if you dislike something, there’s always one simple solution: Censorship. Install the “Shaved Bieber” add-on to remove Justin from your browser.

Finally I got my fingers on 2 copies of the Italian Flash Art Magazine, Issue 274, in which Domeniquo Quaranta wrote about many of our Artzilla projects, and the web browser beeing our canvas

Article online on the authors blog (Italian)

Picture: Mozilla Legend Chris Hoffman, Nadine Freischlad, TBX, Sarah and Mozilla Evangelism Lead Chris Blizzard

As seen in Berlin at the “Skate The Web” exhibit, at the “BLK River Festival” in Vienna and soon at Transmediale Berlin, SA, Feb.06 6 pieces edition 8cm + 6 pieces edition 4cm. Shoot me an email if you want one.

Of course, the vector file for laser action is “open source” and available on thingiverse.com/thing:1609
Special greetz to my homie “Laser” Martin Bauer of lasernlasern.de

Original post on FAT

Artzilla.org is a collection of browser modifications which challenge online society and use online services to create art work. Internet artists, street artists and skateboarders use public architecture in ways, the creators didn’t expect it to be used. Let’s SKATE THE WEB!

Artzilla was presented at WORM Rotterdam and ROFL-Thing New York.

This saturday (5pm CEST, Germany) Teorías del Caos (from Mexico City) is hosting a live-stream with tobi-x. Tobi will give some internet skate lessons, so bring your board and join!!

by Greg Leuch based on Kanye Vision

Bookmarklet Website: Orig. post on fffff.at

what Kanye West did to Taylor Swift the the MTV VMA’s, right? Even Obama calls him a Jackass for that. Well, with this bookmarklet you can interrupt any website like Kanye West. Get the bookmarklet on the original post over at FAT LAB

by Jens Natzschka

Add-on Website: http://happytube.org/

“With the HappyTube Firefox plugin, YouTube will become an oase of peace and happiness.” The HappyTube add-on replaces all hate comments on youtube with nicer ones. Check out the project website – This is how we like it

by Evan Roth and Tobias Leingruber

Add-on Website: http://fffff.at/kanye-vision-bookmarklet/

View the internet the way Kanye sees it.

Go to FFFFFAT and drag’n'drop the button into your toolbar to get Kanye Vision!!!!!!!!!!

by Nicholas Knouf

Add-on Website: http://maicgregator.org/

The MAICgregator add-on aggregates information about colleges and universities embedded in the military-academic-industrial complex (MAIC). It searches government funding databases, private news sources, private press releases, and public information about trustees to try and produce a radical cartography of the modern university via the replacement or overlay of this information on academic websites. This is a necessary activity in light of the contemporary financial “crisis”.