Type of site | Search engine |
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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 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.
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 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.