app development Archives

Business

Partnering and Developing Apps for Fortune 100 Companies and Media Moguls

Ben Lee4 years ago

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For the most part, it’s young companies that seek development for mobile apps. New apps go on the App Store...

Business

5 Ways Freelance Developers Can Solve Payment Delays

Johnny Reinsch4 years ago

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Freelancers in the app world should consider alternatives to the traditional--and often burdensome--payment process. App developers are suffering. The money...

Mobile

5 Commonly Overlooked Features That Can Make or Break Your App’s Popularity

Vivek Shah5 years ago

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Mobile app developers need to transform their creative ideas while considering different issues involved with functionality, analytics, and security. By considering such...

Business

Profile: Zime app & the psychology of helping you manage your time better

Piers Dillon Scott9 years ago

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We speak to the developers of Zime to see why they took on the challenge of developing a new calendar task app.

Entertainment

You better get dancing if you want to listen to Calvin Harris’s 18 Months on your phone

Piers Dillon Scott10 years ago

2.63K

Calvin Harris's wants you to keep moving in order to listen to his latest album, 18 months, on its official app. Here comes dance to play economics

Entertainment

Big Motive’s Smart TV app shows what smart engineers can do #websummit

Piers Dillon Scott10 years ago

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We speak to the founder of Big Motive, whose Smart TV app, Motivision, allows users to make live purchases & will be launched at SXSW in March 2013.

Entertainment

The UK’s Big Motive declares opens fire in the battle for your second screen

Piers Dillon Scott10 years ago

4.18K

The battle for your second screen, the mobile or tablet you use when watching TV, has just begun - with the arrival of Big Motive's Motivision on the market

Mobile

Ireland’s app awards, The Appys, now accepting nominations

Darren McCarra10 years ago

2.25K

The Appys, an awards event celebrating great app development and design in Ireland, is now open for entries. The event is in its third year and has established itself as a 'must win' award for the app development community.

Business

Live blog from the #donedealsocial Measurement.ie Conference

Piers Dillon Scott10 years ago

30.8K

We're live from the Measurement.ie Conference where some of Ireland's digital media leaders are discussing social media, analytics, metrics, content and best practice

Business

Tapadoo’s Dermot Daly talks social & mobile (& how they deliver different results)

Piers Dillon Scott10 years ago

1.85K

Tapaddo founder, Dermot Daly, discusses social metrics and app analytics - what is the difference and how do you protect privacy?

Brains Byte Back

We explore how our brains, psychology, and society are impacted by the ever-evolving technology that surrounds us. If you want to be better prepared for the new information age, have a healthier relationship with technology, and get more out of life using top technology and psychology hacks, this is the podcast for you! Every other Friday we bring you interviews with leading experts in the fields of technology and psychology combined, with past guest speakers such as New York Times journalists, MIT Professors, and C-suite executives of top tech companies.

You may have heard of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and his followers, commonly known as Rajneeshees or sannyasins, from the incredibly popular Netflix documentary “Wild, Wild Country.”

Well in today’s episode we speak with a former follower of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh cult to get a better understanding of how this society functioned, what it was like to live in normal society as a member of the cult, and what it was like on the famous Oregon ranch.

With our guest, Annie (who has asked to remain anonymous but showed her mala that she wore during her time as a Rajneshee to prove her affiliation with the cult), we find out how she first find out about Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and the Rajneeshees, and what inspired her to join their cult, where she goes into great detail about how she found them when she was 16 at an Alcoholics Anonymous event.

She also shares why life as a Rajneeshee was difficult off the ranch in normal society, as society often treated them with a mixture of suspicion, curiosity, and fear. In fact, she was fired from all of her jobs due to her membership in the cult, but she also explains how she saw this as a positive, “a trial by fire” as she claims.

Annie also goes into detail about what it was like visiting the ranch in 1983, when, she believes, much of the footage used in the documentary was filmed. She talks about the important role meditation played in being a Rajneeshee and what a normal day was like on the ranch.

She also shares her thoughts on how accurate the documentary was, how close she came to meeting Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and finally, how she left the cult in the end.

Overall, Annie explains why she doesn’t see the following as a religion or cult, but instead as a community and how this community had such an overall, lasting positive experience in her life.