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The blurb on the back cover starts out, 'Want to tap the power behind search rankings, product recommendations, social bookmarking, and online matchmaking? This fascinating book demonstrates how you can build Web 2.0 applications to mine the enormous amount of data created by participatory Internet applications'. That's fine and dandy, but what's the inside story? If you happen across this book at your local bookstore, do you wonder just what 'Collective Intelligence' is in this context? Let's find out a little about the concept, the practice, and this book.
At first blush, it looks like 'Collective Intelligence' is the art and
practice of collecting information or 'data sets' from web sites on the
Internet. The book is supposed to teach the reader how to write programs to take
advantage of all of this available information. Sounds like a 'With great power
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