How to create my own recommendation engine?

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Published on 2009-09-10T21:31:24Z Indexed on 2010/05/28 8:02 UTC
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i am intrested in recommendation engines these days and i wanna improve myself in this area.I am currently reading Programming Collective Intelligence (i think this is the best book about this subject) from OReilly (just started).But i dont have any ideas how to implement engine(what i mean by no idea dont know how to start).Lets say i have project like LastFM in my mind

where do (should be implemented on database side or backend side)i start creating recommnedation engine?
what level database knowledge will needed?
is there any open source ones that can be used for help or any resource?
what should be the first steps that i have to do?

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