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Mobile

Connecting passion with promotion for mobile app marketing strategies

Guest Contributor6 years ago

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Mobile apps need marketing to a great extent for their success. In spite of the competition, one has to devise...

Web

Growing online advertising complexity requires better efficiency, SEMPAD

Tim Hinchliffe6 years ago

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Peter Elmhirst, Founder of SEMPAD, talks about how his almost 10 years of online advertising experience has culminated in what he...

Technology

Partnership on AI vs OpenAI: Consolidation of Power vs Open Source

Tim Hinchliffe6 years ago

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The Partnership on AI consolidates control for a handful of corporations and their stakeholders, pitting them against Elon Musk's OpenAI open source,...

Social Media

Slack partners with Salesforce just before launch of Facebook at Work

Tim Hinchliffe6 years ago

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Facebook at Work launches next month to rival workflow platforms like Yammer just as Slack partners with Salesforce to integrate...

Technology

Sygic launches 1st 360° travel VR app in Oculus Store

Tim Hinchliffe6 years ago

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GPS navigation leader, Sygic, launches its travel VR app, and now anyone with a Samsung Gear VR powered by Oculus VR headset...

Technology

Shelf integrates Google Drive, Dropbox to sync content curation across platforms

Tim Hinchliffe6 years ago

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By integrating with existing storage tools such as Google Drive and Dropbox, Shelf beta launches its next generation content curation platform....

Technology

Traditional banking is ‘not motivated to cater to millennials’: Exeq Interview

Tim Hinchliffe6 years ago

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The Sociable catches up with Isaac Kassin, co-Founder of Exeq, who talks about how he set out to disrupt the...

Technology

Why live chat agents should have sales skills

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Live chat agents are in a unique position where their knowledge of the company should allow for not only great...

Technology

Is technology really the solution for developing countries to prosper?

Tim Hinchliffe6 years ago

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The World IT Forum (WITFOR) concludes that technology will help developing countries prosper, but without the infrastructure, how could this...

Technology

BombBomb seeks to ‘humanize the planet’ via B2B video email for sales

Tim Hinchliffe6 years ago

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Before email became the leading social technology for business, paper and ink sufficed for centuries. Now video is poised to revolutionize...

Gaming

A Telecoms pro surrounded by the latest tech shares his reluctant foray into gaming

Guest Contributor6 years ago

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Growing up I wasn’t much of a gamer. As a 90’s kid of course Pokemon played (and still plays) an...

Web

Why it makes sense to study online

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In recent years, online learning has gone from strength to strength, with more and more students opting to take their...

Mobile

Irish startup Pulp lets you create music videos with stunning filters on iOS

Tim Hinchliffe6 years ago

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Pulp officially announces the beta launch of its mobile video app and social sharing platform to immerse users at the center...

Technology

Team collaboration app Grapple improves task management across time zones

Tim Hinchliffe6 years ago

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With more functionality than Slack and more practical than Basecamp for travelling team members, Grapple is an easy to use task...

Technology

Colombia-based Pimex beta launches CRM for marketers to monetize leads

Tim Hinchliffe6 years ago

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Colombia-based marketing leads organizing platform Pimex beta launches to help marketers better manage and monetize their leads. https://vimeo.com/172902268 Available in...

Social Media

Facebook reinstates Napalm Girl photo after censoring its historical context

Tim Hinchliffe6 years ago

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Facebook reinstates the Pulitzer Prize winning photo of "Napalm Girl" after ignoring the historical significance of the event by censoring the iconic image...

Business

Squadhelp gamifies company branding with creative contests

Tim Hinchliffe6 years ago

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You don't have to go on a psychedelic Visionquest to come up with that perfect company name. Instead, you can use...

Web

Vivaldi web browser continues to enrich personal customization with new custom theme scheduling

Tim Hinchliffe6 years ago

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While Chrome still dominates as the most popular web browser, Vivaldi continues to surpass the Google giant in personal customization...

Mobile

Social fitness app Racefully sprints to $213K connecting runners in real-time

Tim Hinchliffe6 years ago

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Over 100 million people worldwide use a fitness app, but only one of them connects up to eight users in real-time...

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.