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

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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

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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

Technology

Thousands of Twitter users flock to follow the chief suspect in Friday’s terror attacks in Norway

Piers Dillon Scott11 years ago

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Two days after the horrific twin bombings and gun attacks in Oslo and Utoeya, thousands of Twitter users have begun following the chief suspect, Anders Berhring Breivik.

Technology

Channel 4’s 4HD available on Freesat this April

Darren McCarra11 years ago

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Freesat, providers of subscription-free satellite TV, have today announced that Channel 4’s 4HD will be arriving on Freesat this April, bringing the total number of high definition channels available on the service to four. Currently BBC One HD, BBC HD, and ITV 1 HD are offered.

Entertainment

Watch ITV and Channel 4 content on your PS3

Darren McCarra11 years ago

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ITV and Channel 4 are both expected to launch the first commercial video content that can be viewed in the UK via the PlayStation 3 later this week. This follows a similar strategy from the BBC which launched its BBC iPlayer for the PS3 last year.

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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.