Yeah, good point - I'll strike it off later. Can't see what good it does to 
show the full date of birth. 

On 17 Apr 2010, at 01:22, "'Dragon' Dave McKee" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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/
>>>>> 
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