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.
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.
[citation needed] It had hacked into some YouTube users accounts to get the 'sign up name' to display with the 'user name'.
[citation needed] The site offered a REST-style API, which no longer exists.