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Explode, a meta-social network
Explode, a new service from Curverider (the British startup behind Elgg), is described as "a simple way to connect to all your friends regardless of what [social] network they belong to".
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Although comparisons with Yahoo's MyBlogLog are inevitable, Explode isn't primarily intended as a way to turn an existing blog into a social network, nor as a way to monitor traffic. Instead, think of it as a loosely joined network that works on top of existing social networking sites and blogs, to allow a user of one site to 'befriend' and communicate with a user from another.
Curverider co-founder, Ben Werdmuller, says that Explode is very much a 'work in progress', and that they are already working on an API, and also have plans to add support for OpenID.
Update: More coverage over at TechCrunch