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Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications, Toby Segaran, O’Reilly August 2007

I can’t tell how meaningful to real-world ‘collective intelligence’ software this book is, for lack of deep experience on the topic; but the techniques which I already knew of (e.g. Genetic Algorithms) are presented with sufficient detail and properly put in context. At the very least it’s a nice overview of what is — according to the book – going on “under the hood” at many large web2.0 websites.