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Every ecommerce website would love to have a full featured recommendation engine like Amazon but how do you get one started? I found one open source project (Taste) but what other resources would you recommend for education and code.

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Programming collective intelligence is a great resource if you want to write your own.

Programming Collective Intelligence

Greg
This is the second time I've seen someone mention that book so I'm adding it to my wishlist. For a feature that is showing up so often on websites there doesn't appear to be that many good resources online.
Mike L
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If you're using Ruby, then try the collaborative_filter gem:

http://github.com/tyler/collaborative_filter/tree/master

Heard about this at the Boston Ruby Group meeting, July 2008.

Terry Lorber
We're a .NET shop so I'm looking for something native or with a web service API. But I'll vote you up since I didnt' specify.
Mike L
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There is an entire research area in computer science devoted to this subject. I'd suggest reading some articles.

Ricardo Cabral