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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Hello,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>In
a research on the topic of "News Recommendation based on Social Networking
Profiles", I am currently conducting an experiment and in need for
participants.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>The
participants are reqested to browse <a href="http://www.crowdlogics.com/"
target="_blank">http://www.crowdlogics.com</a> and approve its connection to
Facebook (the authorization to the social network is performed directly and
blind to the site).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>After
connecting to the social network and short processing period, summaries of
recently published news items will be shown to the user with voting buttons
next to them.<br>
<br>
Please tag the news items by how interesting you found them to be (Green –
Interesting, Red – Not interesting), you may leave some items untagged. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>That's
All. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>This
experiment has been approved by the University of Haifa Ethics Committee
(009-05) and is conducted under the supervision of the Computer Science Faculty
and Information Management Faculty.<br>
<br>
The information gathered will not contain any personal identification details
and will only be used for this research and its purposes.<br>
<br>
Comments and suggestions will be gladly accepted at <a
href="mailto:a.tiroshi@gmail.com" target="_blank">a.tiroshi@gmail.com</a>.<br>
<br>
Thank you for your participation!<br>
<br>
The request was sent on behalf of my student,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Amit
Tiroshi <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Kunstler Script";
color:#1F497D'>Tsvika</span></i></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
"Kunstler Script";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Monotype Corsiva";color:#548DD4'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#1F497D'>Tsvi Kuflik, PhD.</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#1F497D'> Senior Lecturer</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#1F497D'> MIS department</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#1F497D'> The University of Haifa</span></i><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#1F497D'> Email: </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><a
href="mailto:tsvikak@is.haifa.ac.il"
title="blocked::mailto:tsvikak@is.haifa.ac.il"><i><span style='color:#1F497D;
text-decoration:none'>tsvikak@is.haifa.ac.il</span></i></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#1F497D'> Home page: </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><a
href="http://mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il/~tsvikak/Home.htm"
title="blocked::http://mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il/~tsvikak/Home.htm"><i><span
style='color:#1F497D;text-decoration:none'>http://mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il/~tsvikak/Home.htm</span></i></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#1F497D'> Tel: +972 4 8288511</span></i><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'> Fax: +972 4 8288</span></i><span dir=RTL></span><i><span
lang=HE dir=RTL style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><span dir=RTL></span>283</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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