Prince William and Kate get married on Friday. To celebrate I set up a website a few months ago and built some technology as a bit of fun that aggregates feeds from various sources and builds a news site automatically, in this case a news site all about William and Kate. These are the results.

Firstly the website is here: http://www.prince-william-kate.com

What is the technology?

Everytime a visitor comes to your site the system will scan the RSS feeds that you gave it and update the site with content. Basically over time a site will be built automatically with archived news as well as Twitter searches and a featured article that changes every hour.

My experiment

I built the system in a few hours and only pulled in a few feeds from various news sites. I whipped up a home page with some info from Wikipedia and then then left it to it for a few months.

Now it's a couple of days before the royal wedding and I'm getting 50-60 visits a day and searches mostly from Bing, but also Yahoo and Google too - and this is without doing anything!

So if you want to get hold of this CodeIgniter project let me know and I'll stick it on BitBucket. If you want to buy the Prince William Kate domain let me know, you might be able to monetize it!

So big congrats to Prince William and Kate on their special day!