Philippe Adjiman has a nice writeup of his experiences using Mahout for collaborative filtering on his blog:
http://philippeadjiman.com/blog/2009/11/11/flexible-collaborative-filtering-in-java-with-mahout-taste/ > [...] > Conclusion > Mahout Taste is a very flexible platform to experiment > collaborative filtering algorithms. It certainly won’t provide you an > immediate solution to your recommendation problem, but you’ll be > easily able to either tune the existing algorithms or plug your own > creative ones into the mahout taste interfaces set. By doing so, > you’ll immediately get the benefit of a platform allowing you to > compare, tune and improve iteratively the results of your different > algorithm configurations. Last but not least, Mahout taste provide an > external server which exposes recommendation logic to your > application via web services and HTTP. Isabel
