Dating should be fun. In fact it should be loads of fun. But if you visit most online dating sites, the first words that come to mind are serious, stiff, formal and possibly even boring. Dating sites might have provided the seed for today’s cool social networks like Facebook and MySpace, but when it comes [...]

There was an interesting article in The Times today written by Jacquie Myburgh (in the interests of full disclosure I must unashamedly admit that I was reading the paper version of the newspaper). Marks and Spencer in the UK have until now apparently priced their larger sized bras at a premium to regular sized bras. [...]

The world is currently experiencing one of the worst recessions in the history of modern times. For most businesses, a recession means less customers and less spending by existing customers, which means reduced turnover and diminished profits. However there are some businesses that actually perform better in these hard times. Companies that provide a product [...]

Trouble makers are people who join communities for the all the wrong reasons. It could be someone pretending to be someone else, or someone that uses the community in order to perpetrate a scam, or that uses the community as a platform to defame or discredit someone else they have had a personal disagreement with, [...]

There was a time when online dating was considered something only creeps or desperate people did when they had no other options. This has changed over the last few years, and online dating is now generally considered a good way to meet new people or even to find your soul mate.
Meeting people online is [...]

Reputation is an extremely important part of any community, and online communities are no exception. In fact in the case of online communities reputation is arguably more important since it is that much easer to hide your identity online. A good example of an online community with an explicit reputation management system is ebay. After [...]

The first thing I decided to do once the new site was ready is install Google Analytics. For those who don’t know, this allows you to track who is visiting your site, where they are coming from, and what they do while they are there. All very useful and interesting information. For anyone running an [...]

Welcome to the new website for BlackHatMedia. After many years our original website has finally been laid to rest. You may have noticed that the new site is built using WordPress, and there are some good reasons for this. Firstly, WordPress allowed us to build a professional looking site very quickly (it took only a [...]