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Lions vs. Bufalo video
Lion never hunts a Buffalo as it finds it very difficult. But here a family of Lions do not want to waste a chance. They almost succed? No
This video is a swf format file and requires Flash 9.
I tried in a 256kbps broadband and it was slow! Take a hard ride!
It is worth watching.
It looks like an Ad - they ignore it
If you were specifically looking for the population of the United States, you’d notice the big red numbers in the upper right corner of the US Census Bureau homepage right? Not so fast. A recent eye-tracking study suggests you’ve been trained to ignore things like that.
Usability expert Jakob Nielsen, who’s been studying how people interact with webpages since there were webpages to interact with, follows up on previous explorations to show once again that people not only ignore content that looks like advertising, but need things plainly spelled out for them.
The task was simple enough: find the country’s current population. Nielsen even gave them the website to use. But 86 percent of users failed to find the answer even though it was displayed in large red letters in plain sight.
“Users tend to ignore heavily formatted areas because they look like advertisements. Thus, about 1/3 of users never even saw the Population Clock. However, most people did fixate on this area because it’s not as overly formatted as most promotional features. So, most users saw the Population Clock; they just didn’t use it, even though it contained the exact information they were looking for.”
Okay, so a third doesn’t exactly make up 86 percent. Why did the others fail when, in my grandmother’s language, if it was a snake it woulda bit them? There are many reasons, but a large chunk of it, says Nielsen, lies in the language.
Most users scanned the big red number U.S. 302, 781, 150, as of today, but only made it to 302 before skipping off to the search box labeled “Population Finder” or some other area. (Or in one case, a man after my own heart, frustrated with poor site search, said “forget it, I’m going to Google.”)
The big red number was labeled “Population Clocks,” which isn’t exactly an intuitive label. It sounds more related to time than it does to number of people. It’s a classic case of leveraging core competencies rather than using your strengths. As users didn’t automatically grasp what a population clock was, they skipped it.
The suggestion here then is that a simpler label of “Current US Population” would have worked much better, giving the user what the user expects, which is the end goal.
Andy Beal, editor and Internet marketing consultant for MarketingPilgrim.com has another take on it, which might make sense to you. Users may have taught themselves not just the look and feel of advertising, but also the location of advertising.
“The study demonstrates that it’s not just paid ads users are filtering from web sites, but areas that might contain ads. Web users are conditioned to focus on the main area of a web site, when looking for meaningful information.
“They’ve been taught that the areas to the left or right are typically reserved for navigation or advertisements. As Neilsen suggests, it’s important to make sure important information is located in the area of the web page users expect to find it.”
Beautiful Moving Thoughts, Remember them always in life.
If a drop of water falls in lake there is no identity. But if it falls on a leaf of lotus it shines like a pearl. So choose the best place where you would shine..
Raindrops falling from the sky have nothing in mind except to hit the earth. No matter how tough the drop is it still reaches its destiny! Be positive always.
Never take some one for granted, Hold every person Close to your Heart because you might wake up one day and realise that you have lost a diamond while you were too busy collecting stones.
When you were born you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die you’re the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying
The happiest people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
It’s true that we don’t know what we’ve got until we lose it, but it’s also true that we don’t know what we have been missing until it arrives.
When the door of happiness closes, another opens; but often times we look so long at the closed door that we don’t see the one, which has opened for us.
Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. Find the ‘that’ makes your heart smile.
Send this message to those people who mean something to you, to those who have touched your life in one way or another and those who you want to let them know that you appreciate their friendship.
Remember this always in Life and have a blessed day
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