Ex.plode.us

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ex.plode.us
URL ex.plode.us
Commercial? yes
Type of site Search engine
Available language(s) English
Owner Curverider Ltd
Launched 2007
Current status active

ex.plode.us AKA Explode is a website search engine that indexes people. It is created by Curverider, the people behind the Elgg social networking platform. [1]

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] and was developed for Curverider by Marcus Povey.[6]

[edit] API

A REST style API is available offering programmatic access to search and user functions.

The API was first made public in September 2007 [7].

[edit] References

  1. ^ 'Explode' blows down barriers that separate social networks
  2. ^ Explode, a meta-social network
  3. ^ Ex.plode.us relaunches with a bang
  4. ^ Dave Tosh :: Blog :: Social search comes to Facebook via Explode
  5. ^ Social search comes to Facebook via Explode
  6. ^ Exploding Facebook
  7. ^ Explode API

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