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Tech5 Sweden: Freespee named the fastest-growing Swedish startup

Apr15
by on April 15, 2015 at 8:56 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Freespee, Insider, Next Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, Tech5, the next web conference

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Congratulations to Freespee – which turns consumer voice interactions into data – on being named Sweden’s fastest-growing startup. Speaking about the company’s win, Freespee’s founder and CEO Carl Holmquist said: It’s a real honour to share the stage with TNW at the conference later this month. To win Sweden Tech 5 is a great energy boost. It takes guts to think differently. Our customers, who demonstrated the courage to think differently, means everything to us. We intend to do much more in the future to ensure that they have nothing but the best from Freespee! Adyen and TNW hosted the Swedish awards event last week at the…

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Amazon’s Fire TV Stick is now available in the UK and Germany, and it might just have replaced my Roku

Apr15
by on April 15, 2015 at 8:49 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Reviews, UK

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Amazon’s Fire TV Stick, available in the US since the end of last year, is now available to buy in the UK and Germany for the first time. It went up for pre-order last month priced at £35, or £19 if you’re an Amazon Prime subscriber, although that deal has now ended. People who pre-ordered should get their devices today. As well as allowing you to watch Amazon Prime content included with your subscription, or buy titles to keep, there’s also provision for playing back your own content stored on other devices, either by using Amazon’s cloud locker storage services, or…

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Designing websites that mirror how our eyes work (part 2)

Apr15
by on April 15, 2015 at 7:48 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, How-To's, web design

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Jerry Cao is a UX content strategist at UXPin — the wireframing and prototyping app. To learn more about content-first design, download the free e-book Web UI Design for the Human Eye: Content Patterns & Typography. When users encounter text-heavy pages, their eyes can follow the F-Pattern, a subject we covered in-depth last week. But what about pages that are more visual? This week, in the second part of our design series on creating websites that mimic how our eyes work, we focus on the Z-Pattern. Source: Trend Web Solutions Think of the Z-pattern as the sister to the F-pattern. Both are…

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