Streetfiles.org

photo by StreetBrother

Streetfiles launched one month ago. We thank all visitors and all members for wasting time with us. Each day about 1000 visitors check out the newest photos of graff and urban art. The average visitor stays about 9 minutes (which is very long for a website). So each day 8 days get spended on Streetfiles, not only like the Beatles mentioned: 8 days a week.

We already have 500 members. About 4000 photos got uploaded in the first 30 days, most of them by members.

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Das für investigativen Journalismus bekannte berliner Stadtmagazin Zitty entdeckt den Street Art Hype, zitiert mich als Graffitiopi (richtig!), zeigt Fotos von Just und fragt was eigentlich Street Art sei: Kunst, Vandalismus, oder politischer Kommentar? Naja.

Gestern war ich mit Jo Irrläufer und Aljoscha Igrich vom Graffitimuseum bei Jero im Funkwelle Radio.

Wieder einmal ging es um das aktuelle Thema Datenschutz im Zusammenhang mit Veröffentlichung von Graffitibildchen im Internet (Web, Cloud, Netz, WWW ...).

Hier ist ein Mitschnitt (Podcast).

Piclens (http://www.piclens.com/) is a free Firefox plugin to browse and view all kind of media in a stylish 3d way FULLSCREEN. Streetfiles supports Piclens on certain lists like "new & popular". Please keep on supporting us with feature requests and bug reports (we know there are still a lot of them). Write us a mail or even better post something in the developing corner. [update] We updated the rss feeds a little bit to browse all photos. We really hope traffic won't kill us.

We produced a few new Streetfiles stickers. You tag your name on and promote your name and streetfiles at the same time. These stickers get distributed by stylefile and overkill (thanks).

Susan wrote 'How posting online can get you busted'. We advice: you should read it.

On our website your IP adresses get stored:

• In the firewall of the server for seven days to protect Streetfiles against hack attacks;
• In our web analyzer 'Clicky' for a year. We chose Clicky not Google Analytics to be a bit more private;
• On our own adserver for seven days.

In addition we save each Streetfiles members e-mail address. We have to do so to make sure not to get bombed by spambots. We suggest you use an e-mail address just for this purpose which can not get connected to you personally. You can even change the e-mail address afterwards in a non existing e-mail, whichs is on the other hand not so good, because than you should not forget your password and you will not be notified on anything.

And yes: we use cookies.

We delete all photo metadata (EXIF, IPTC etc) after the upload!

We check each photo before publishing. We will not publish photos which are too hardcore. Streetfiles is about interesting stuff, not about hardcore actions.

You can allways upload photos anonmously without being logged in as a Streetfiles member.

So we try to care about your privacy as much as we can. Please do so too. You can start by NOT saving your login data to Streetfiles in your browser.

We suggest you use an anonymity service like Tor. Read our privacy policy for more info on this topic.

We still have goosebumps! Yesterday 2.000 visitors wanted to know what Streetfiles looks like. We got 77 new members, and 496 new photos on the first day!

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Now we are here. Thanks to everybody who supported us, especially just & ueberdose.

We integrated about 17.000 photos from the old graffitinet.com website and uploaded about 3.000 new ones (mostly from Berlin). Beside the anonymous upload you are now able become a Streetfiles member to manage your photos, write comments and join groups. Membership is free and only takes 2 minutes at Streetfiles.org.

On the frist day we had 545 visitors and about 25 new members.

We did not placed a big BETA button. Although we still expect a few errors here and there. Please do not hestitate to contact us hello@streetfiles.org if something strange happens.

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Here is a little Frequently Asked Question collection. We will publish that in english in the next few days. read more …

ABOVE: SOUTH CENTRAL TOUR from ABOVE on Vimeo. As long we don’t have videos at streetfiles we post them here in the blog. Enjoy the tour of Above thru south america.