Directed Edge, a promising YC startup, makes recommendation engines surprisingly easy:
It's quite a bit higher-level than what Google is offering here, with all the benefits and drawbacks that entails.
It's quite a bit higher-level than what Google is offering here, with all the benefits and drawbacks that entails.
You can find the full documentation on our developer site at http://developer.directededge.com/, and we offer a free developer account for non-commercial purposes: http://www.directededge.com/signup-developer.html
If anybody is giving the Google Prediction API a whirl for recommendations, we'd love to hear about your findings!
Maybe I'm slow, but I don't see how google's prediction API is a good replacement for collaborative filtering type recommendation engines.