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Vultures Everywhere: Domain Service Notice

If you’re the listed contact on your domain registration, you’re going to face scammers. They’re hoping you’re a bit nervous and uncertain about what it means to have your domain name registered. After all, it can be confusing to people if they don’t spend a lot of time working with the Web (like we do here at Square Bear Studio). And so these vultures prey upon the fear that somehow, somewhere, you’ve missed something and are going to suffer for it.

I received a doozy today, titled “Domain Service Notice”. As with all such scams they reveal themselves quickly if you read them calmly. But the veiled threats (you’ll lose exclusive rights, your time is running out, people may have trouble finding your site unless…) are there to keep you from reading calmly. After all, they make sure to underline the following: “Failure to complete your Domain name search engine registration by the expiration date may result in cancellation of this offer making it difficult for your customers to locate you on the web.” Let me assure you that it may also cause pigs to fly. Oh dear, they’re going to cancel their offer to scam me? Continue reading

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Sunni Brown: Doodlers, Unite!

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Frequent Square Bear partner, the amazing Sunni Brown, talks about the value of doodling. I always knew that I listened better while doodling in the margins and that visual thinking was important. But as this video shows, Sunni is amazing … Continue reading

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Texas Career Pathways

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An instructional animation created for Texas Career Pathways, done in partnership with Pattern Productions. The brief was to explain how the Texas Career Pathways website helps people pursue higher education whether you’re a high school student, in college or looking … Continue reading

Posted in Animation

Zenoss IT Operations

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An animation designed to explain how Zenoss helps companies manage their cloud and physical infrastructure. Doing the traffic was a bit of a challenge, but turned out to be a lot of fun. Produced in partnership with Sunni Brown of … Continue reading

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Terrible Older Browsers, Your Time Has Come

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Anyone remember my New Year’s Resolution for you? If you didn’t pay any attention to it, Google is stepping in to make your life harder. Finally, a major company is saying enough… old versions of browsers are holding the Web … Continue reading

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