"Collective Intelligence in Action" would provide you a great foundation for developing Enterprise Class Application

Have you ever surprised to see line similar to "Hello, Sopan. We have recommendations for you" at the top
when you login into the Amazon.com site. Yes, this kind of functionality is very easy to
implement into your application after reading Satnam's "Collective Intelligence in Action"

Have you ever wonder how Netflix is able to recommend movies, what are the latest trends
in the making search more intelligent or how you can intelligently gather new content and
present it to your application?

In this book, Santnam does an excellent job providing the answers to all these questions
The book covers the wide breadth of the topics with amazing focus and detail-architecture
for adding intelligence, tagging and tag clouds, content aggregation through focused web
crawling and from the blogospare, leveraging machine learning techniques such as clustering
and predictive modeling, intelligent search and building recommendation engine.

I particularly like the approach to explain the mathematical concepts with simple examples,
followed by implementing it in simple Java and then leveraging open-source software.

This book can be useful if you are interested in integrating different Open Source Software
to deliver Enterprise Class Application.

I also liked the authors style of providing summary at the end of each chapter.
He also provides huge set of very useful resources for reading further on the topics
covered into the chapters.



You must pickup this book if you are

• serious (developer/manager/architect type of Eng) on adding search or intelligent/smartness into your Application
• person involved in developing (programmer, tester, manager) Social Networking Application
• involved in managing "Knowledge Management Infrastructure" of any size organization

This Book will provide you a great foundation for developing Enterprise Class
Features.

I highly recommend it.