A belated happy birthday :) I'd be tempted to remove the day/month part of the DoB from view as well, unless people are planning to send Julian and other people on the database birthday cards. It's another major piece of information in the identity fraud pie.
Dave. On 17 April 2010 00:47, Julian Todd <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Matt Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: >> Company number is in the URL and should be on the page too. > > Damnit! How did I miss that. Well done for using the unique-id. Oh > well, so much for privacy... > http://directors.mapofpower.com/appointees/13996190 > > Julian > > > I'm afraid that the incorporation date was on another dataset than the > one we bought, but i think it's part of the set that's free on > webcheck. On the other hand the oldest appointment date for a company > may be from the incorporation document (and will say so if it is) so > you could make a fair guess. >> >> On 16 Apr 2010, at 23:18, Julian Todd <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Do you have anything more about the companies, apart from just the >>> name, like the company number, whether it's classified as a small >>> business, and when it was incorporated? >>> >>> Julian. >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Matt Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Wotcha, >>>> Thought that some of you might be interested in >>>> http://directors.mapofpower.com/ – we bought the Companies House >>>> appointment >>>> snapshot and dropped it into a quick little searchable symfony app so you >>>> can browse the data - it's the directors and secretaries of every UK >>>> company, cross-linked. Quite handy for looking up your PPCs, ex-MPs, etc. >>>> Also handy (if you're a childish prat like me) for looking up funny names >>>> (see if you can beat Minge Fan, or Arse Plems Kyentu). >>>> I was wanting to work on it a bit more before making it public, but we just >>>> haven't had time. If anyone wants to help out on it, please get in touch, >>>> I'd really appreciate it, especially if you grok RDF. We're particularly >>>> keen on getting JSON & RDF output running, making the annotations work >>>> (half >>>> done), and putting some kind of API-key thing on it so that we can keep it >>>> free for good causes (like MySociety, DemocracyClub, etc), while managing >>>> to >>>> make a little bit of money back from others so we can afford to buy updated >>>> data snapshots (they're £4k each, so not insanely expensive, but not >>>> exactly >>>> free either). >>>> By way of introduction - hi, I'm Matt, I've been lurking here for about a >>>> year since I started developing WhoKnowsWho at Tui for Channel 4. Myself >>>> and >>>> a couple of colleagues sort of lurk around, belligerently doing good >>>> things. I open-sourced WKW, and am currently working on a UK network for >>>> LittleSis.org. A couple of my colleagues designed the London Datastore. >>>> -- >>>> Matt Robinson >>>> http://inanimatt.com/ >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Mailing list [email protected] >>>> Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: >>>> https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list [email protected] >>> Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: >>> https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list [email protected] >> Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: >> https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
