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  • Topicala Business Search

    • 27 Mar 2008
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    I am just about to release some Business Listing search software.  It is called Topicala Business (http://www.topicala.com/business/). If you are the owner of a UK business you have to opportunity to claim your listing and add a description of your line of business, a list of services you offer and contact information such as a URL, Address and telephone numbers for free.

    Topicala Business is Unique in that it also searches the web for you so that you can find out what your customers and competitors are saying about your business.

    If you know your company number you can visit your page by typing in the follow www.topicala.com/business/{companyNumber}.  Alternatively, you can perform search on the business name from either the main page (http://www.topicala.com/business/ ) or by using a direct query string request. For example, Topicala Ltd can be found using the URL http://www.topicala.com/business/topicala or http://www.topicala.com/business/06512461

    The information is pulled from Companies House (http://www.companies-house.gov.uk) and is licenced under Crown Copyright.

    I am still in the process of loading business information but there are already 169106 companies listed.  Granted, only the registered addresses are available.  But as more companies use the site, the more information that will be available.

    Anyway, give it a try, claim your business and edit your listings so that potential customers can find your business.  All the Business Listings are submitted to Google, so you can promote your listings how you like to give your company information a boost on the search engines.

    I will be adding more features as I go, but I am very interested in any comments you have or any features you would like to see.

    Topicala Tags: Topicala, Business, Yell, Yellow Pages, Business Listings
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  • Twitter

    • 26 Mar 2008
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    I am now on twitter.

    Twit me. My username is PaulKinlan http://www.twitter.com/PaulKinlan

    Topicala Tags: Twitter, Twit, PaulKinlan
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  • Liverpool .Net User Group

    • 26 Mar 2008
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    A few .Net developers have gotten together in Liverpool to form a User Group where we can discuss everything .Net.

    We have a web page with a rather snappy URL (http://www.usersof.net/), so if you are in the area and are interested in .Net why not join the Google group http://groups.google.co.uk/group/liverpoolusersofdotnet and come to meetings if you want(The next one is April the 17th 2008 - http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/454169/).  The more the merrier.

    Topicala Tags: luodn, Liverpool, .Net, Usergroup, asp.net, mvc, dsl
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