The Facebook Journal

There were a lot of rumours yesterday about this morning’s Facebook announcement but none of them were really spot on.

Facebook announced 3 major things this morning:

1. Download Your Information

2. Dashboard for Connected Apps

3. New Groups

Some sources still say that this is just phase one of their “Lockdown” and there’s more to come soon. We’ll just have to wait and see.

From The Telegraph to TechChrunch to your Facebook news stream. The rumours are spreading. Fast.
According to some reports, Facebook has been in a “Lockdown”, working 24/7 on something secret. These rumours started a couple of months ago when Digg founder Kevin Rose tweeted about rumours that Google is working on a social network to challenge Facebook called Google Me. The tweet has been taken down, video below.

The speculations that Facebook is planning something big caught the attention of the masses when Facebook started sending out the invitations for the event which said that the event is starting 10am on Wednesday and that lunch will be served, meaning that the announcement will take quite some time..

Rumours started escalating, bloggers started predicting, Facebook said nothing.

The main 2 rumours are:
1. Facebook is revamping the chat, adding support for video calls via Skype deal.

2. Facebook has a new design.

The more uncommon ones are:
1. Facebook is going public
2. The launch of Facebook Questions
3. Facebook phone
4. Facebook Photos

Below is a video of Kevin Rose talking about Google Me

Here’s a little story about the comment importing problems we’ve encountered with the popular Disqus system.

We started using Disqus back in 2009 when we first launched this website and all was going good until we decided to change the domain name. After the change we’ve used all the tools that Disqus provides to merge/sync/import/export comments onto this new domain. We’ve contacted them directly, indirectly, taken their advice, ignored their advice, did whatever they told us to do, even did the exact opposite… Nothing works! All the comments from 2009 and the beginning of 2010 are lost! Well not exactly lost (they’re still here, in form of regular WordPress comments), but there’s no way to get them to show up on Disqus.

That left us with 2 options. Either to get rid of Disqus and use the horrible WordPress commenting system (horrible, even with all the add-ons and plugins), or to just forget about the comments and start with a fresh install of Disqus.

We’ve tried both of the options and let me tell you this… Disqus wins. I apologise to all of you who’ve lost you comments, but please blame Disqus not us! Believe me, we’ve done all we could and believe me you don’t want to use any other commenting system!

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TechCrunch is reporting today that Facebook has been on “Lockdown” for the past couple of months working on a major redesign.

The event scheduled for tomorrow and multiple reports of the said “Lockdown” appearing in the press from different sources means that they’ll be unavailing something big tomorrow. Some sources even say that it can be a video-calling feature added to their chat service (powered by Skype). In fact, some users are already seeing a revamped chat window moved over to the left