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Sales veteran Jim Benton joins Apollo.io as CEO

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San Francisco-based startup Apollo.io is announcing this week that sales veteran Jim Benton is joining the company as CEO. Benton was...

Business

Conquering San Francisco!: How Venture University is Shaping Tomorrow’s Leaders In The Venture Capital And Private Equity Game

Sam Brake Guia4 years ago

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As Frank Sinatra's famous saying goes "New York, if you can make it here you can make it anywhere." This...

Mobile

America’s first Mobile World Congress: what to expect in San Francisco

Omar Elorfaly5 years ago

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Taking place originally in Barcelona, Spain - Mobile World Congress (MWC) brings the latest and greatest in the mobile industry...

Technology

Microsoft Decoded Show Season 2 launches in San Francisco to a jam-packed crowd

Tim Hinchliffe5 years ago

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After an overwhelming response to attend the premiere of Microsoft's Decoded Show second season, event planners had to change the...

Technology

Future Technology Escape Room in SF Immerses Team Building with Sci Fi Adventures

Tim Hinchliffe5 years ago

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San Francisco startup Reason has opened its Future Technology Escape Room that lets you experience drones, holograms, Virtual Reality ,...

Mobile

Direct image attachment coming to Twitter’s mobile web app

Darren McCarra10 years ago

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Twitter is testing native app-like features for its mobile browser web app that will allow users to attach images to tweets - this includes capturing images direct from a user's smartphone camera and images uploaded from the device's library.

Business

Who wants to see Twitter’s new office in San Francisco?

Piers Dillon Scott10 years ago

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Twitter has moved office in San Francisco to Market Street - here's what the new nest looks like.

Technology

Google Maps’ next dimension revealed with fully automated 3D cityscapes

Darren McCarra10 years ago

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Google has somewhat taken us to the next dimension at its special Google Maps event in San Francisco today as it unveiled its improved version of 3D maps.

Social Media

Twitter sees threefold increase in sign-ups following iOS 5 integration

Darren McCarra11 years ago

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Since Twitter became officially integrated into iOS 5 on its release last Wednesday, Twitter has witnessed a threefold increase in sign-ups over the past six days.

Technology

Google Music Beta launched: It’s no game changer, yet

Piers Dillon Scott11 years ago

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Google's long awaited music service, Google Music Beta, was given a limited launch today at Google's I/O conference in San Francisco, but with Amazon's Cloud Player already launched and iTunes poised to begin music streaming it is too little too late?

Mobile

Apple to debut iPad 2 on March 2

Darren McCarra11 years ago

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Apple is expected to debut the iPad’s successor, dubbed the iPad 2, next week, Wednesday March 2, at an event in San Francisco according to All Things Digital. Although no official invites have been sent out yet, it’s rumoured that the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts will be the likely venue.

Social Media

Skype is giving away free WiFi for Social Media Week

Piers Dillon Scott11 years ago

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To celebrate Social Media week 2011, Skype will be giving away freey WiFi access in eight cities around the world. Citizens in New York, San Francisco, Rome, Paris, Toronto, Sao Paulo, Hong Kong and Istanbul, who use Skype Access, will be able to make VOIP calls and surf for free at public WiFi hotspots for free during the week.

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.