Ex.plode.us

Last updated
ex.plode.us
Type of site
Search engine
Available in English
OwnerCurverider Ltd
URLex.plode.us
Commercialyes
Launched2007
Current statusinactive

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.

Contents

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 ]

API

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

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References

  1. "'Explode' blows down barriers that separate social networks". Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-08-15.
  2. "Explode, a meta-social network". Archived from the original on 2007-08-28. Retrieved 2007-08-15.
  3. "Ex.plode.us relaunches with a bang". Archived from the original on 2007-09-14. Retrieved 2007-08-15.
  4. Dave Tosh :: Blog :: Social search comes to Facebook via Explode
  5. "Social search comes to Facebook via Explode". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-08-30.
  6. "What is ex.plode.us and have we been sold out?". Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2008-06-25.