Company number is in the URL and should be on the page too. 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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