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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.

Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide: Business thinking and strategies behind successful Web 2.0 implementations, Amy Shuen, O’Reilly August 2008

Based on the stories of Google and others, this book answers the question ‘how does web 2.0 economics work and how to generate profits within it. >> highly recommended <<