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Business Technology

Startup ecosystem spotlight on Hungary from past, present, and future

Craig Corbett5 years ago

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Our friends at 150sec spoke to a number of experts on the ground to compile this overview of the tech...

Mobile

Profile: Designed by M, bringing personality & style to your iPhone

Piers Dillon Scott9 years ago

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We speak to Design by M, the team behind the stylish increasingly popular Al13 iPhone and iPhone 5 bumpers.

Gaming

Profile: bitSmith Games. How one start-up is gaming mythology on its road to success

Piers Dillon Scott9 years ago

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One gaming start-up turned to ancient Celtic mythology for the inspiration for its most successful release - and plans to bring more legends to life soon.

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

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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

Social Media

Can’t wait to use the new Facebook Timeline? Here’s how to get it NOW!

Darren McCarra11 years ago

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Among a slew of exciting announcements made by Facebook yesterday at their f8 developers conference, Facebook introduced Timeline - arguably the biggest shake-up in profile design ever! While it won't be made available to the public just yet, here's how to start using it right now!

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.