Ex.plode.us

ex.plode.us was a website search engine that indexed people. It was created by Curverider, the creators of the Elgg social networking platform.^[1] Ex.plode.us aggregated social data from 43 Things, flickr, jaiku, Live Journal, tribe.net, Twitter, and YouTube.

Initially launched as Explode! in February 2007 ^[2] as purely a social network aggregation utility and widget it was re-launched in May 2007 as a people search engine.^[3]

In August 2007 a Facebook version was released, taking advantage of the recently opened Facebook API.^[4][5] However, the Facebook application did not allow ex.plode.us to aggregate information from Facebook.

In February 2008 a discussion on tribe.net dominated by tribe users who voiced privacy concerns resulted in tribe.net blocking ex.plode.us from accessing tribe users' FOAF data.^[6] Individuals who were users of both ex.plode.us and tribe.net lost a great deal of their network on ex.plode.us.

As of February 2010, ex.plode.us no longer exists.^{[citation needed]}

It had hacked into some YouTube users accounts to get the 'sign up name' to display with the 'user name'. Google still has searches related to this hacking.^{[citation needed]}

The site offered a REST-style API, which no longer exists.

• Official press release
• Look Out MyBlogLog - Here Comes Explode
• Explode adds people search Archived 2007-08-28 at the Wayback Machine
• Explode is a New Social Search Engine
• Explode - A social network connection

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