isn't the base problem one of collaborative filtering? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_filtering http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_filtering

isn't the base problem one of collaborative filtering? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_filtering http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_filtering seems like a fairly interesting problem to me - or am i idealizing? i suppose some developers would rather work on language/framework problems than data analysis problems...