# Ex.plode.us

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Former internet search engine

ex.plode.us Type of site Search engine Available in English Owner Curverider Ltd URL ex.plode.us Commercial yes Launched 2007 Current status inactive

**ex.plode.us** was a website [search engine](/source/Search_engine) that indexed people. It was created by Curverider, the creators of the [Elgg](/source/Elgg_(software)) social networking platform.[1] Ex.plode.us aggregated social data from [43 Things](/source/43_Things), [flickr](/source/Flickr), [jaiku](/source/Jaiku), [Live Journal](/source/Live_Journal), [tribe.net](/source/Tribe.net), [Twitter](/source/Twitter), and [YouTube](/source/YouTube).

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

In August 2007 a [Facebook](/source/Facebook) version was released, taking advantage of the recently opened Facebook [API](/source/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](/source/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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

## API

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

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["'Explode' blows down barriers that separate social networks"](https://web.archive.org/web/20070930155459/http://www.mcall.com/features/columnists/all-netizen0302mar02,0,4008357.column). Archived from [the original](http://www.mcall.com/features/columnists/all-netizen0302mar02,0,4008357.column) on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-08-15.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Explode, a meta-social network"](https://web.archive.org/web/20070828023011/http://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=97). Archived from [the original](https://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=97) on 2007-08-28. Retrieved 2007-08-15.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Ex.plode.us relaunches with a bang"](https://web.archive.org/web/20070914100615/http://www.vecosys.com/2007/05/16/explodeus-relaunches-with-a-bang/). Archived from [the original](http://www.vecosys.com/2007/05/16/explodeus-relaunches-with-a-bang/) on 2007-09-14. Retrieved 2007-08-15.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [Dave Tosh :: Blog :: Social search comes to Facebook via Explode](http://eduspaces.net/dtosh/weblog/191833.html)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Social search comes to Facebook via Explode"](https://web.archive.org/web/20070927091031/http://curverider.co.uk/blog/2007/08/30/starting-to-open-up-facebook-with-explode/). Archived from [the original](http://curverider.co.uk/blog/2007/08/30/starting-to-open-up-facebook-with-explode/) on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-08-30.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["What is ex.plode.us and have we been sold out?"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110723094142/http://brainstorm.tribe.net/thread/34fb1a79-351d-4251-8318-829623c1c9cb?newpostingid=7c402919-fa8e-4ca4-8d5d-dd7a2c9b56fe#7c402919-fa8e-4ca4-8d5d-dd7a2c9b56fe). Archived from [the original](http://brainstorm.tribe.net/thread/34fb1a79-351d-4251-8318-829623c1c9cb?newpostingid=7c402919-fa8e-4ca4-8d5d-dd7a2c9b56fe#7c402919-fa8e-4ca4-8d5d-dd7a2c9b56fe) on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2008-06-25.

## External links

- [Official press release](https://web.archive.org/web/20070815074038/http://curverider.co.uk/blog/2007/05/16/50/)

- [Look Out MyBlogLog - Here Comes Explode](https://techcrunch.com/2007/02/20/look-out-mybloglog-here-comes-explode/)

- [Explode adds people search](https://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=158) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20070828024552/http://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=158) 2007-08-28 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine)

- [Explode is a New Social Search Engine](http://mashable.com/2007/05/15/explode/)

- [Explode - A social network connection](https://web.archive.org/web/20070820183253/http://demogirl.com/2007/05/15/explode-a-social-network-connection/)

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