Did you know that YouTube offers an online version of Trivial Pursuit? For a regular pub quizzer like myself, I admit that it’s rather addictive!

Each round consists of three questions, and one “Bet on Me” card. The three questions are trivia questions, which can be challenging:

• Fire > Sports and Leisure: Which sport is played by New Zealand’s “Wellington Firebirds”?
• Winter > Science and Nature: Which famous groundhog has been predicting the length of winter in Pennsylvania for more than a century?
  
• Lost and Found > Entertainment: From what city did Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 depart when it crashed on a Pacific island in the TV series Lost?

Of course, I knew those answers, but I didn’t write them here, so that I wouldn’t spoil it for you. But the fourth card is the most fun, to be fair; it’s the Bet on Me card, which shows you a YouTube celebrity (Chocolate Rain, anyone?) along with a question that they were asked. You then have to guess whether or not they got the answer right.

You get casino chips every time you get an answer right. At the top of the board, you can see the overall tally – The People’s Chips vs. YouTube Chips. So far, The People are winning!

Alex Miller, a 12-year-old from San Jose, California, just cashed a $3000 check for finding a buffer overflow bug in ‘document.write’.

The bug, which was was the major security issue fixed in this week’s releases of Firefox 3.6.11 and 3.5.14, was apparently discovered after he spent “about 90 minutes each day for 10 days.” I.e., he went through code for 15 hours and made $3000, or $200 per hour. At his age, I was still drawing Ninja Turtles.

If you think you can do better, just head over to Mozilla Developer Central. Check out the Firefox source and start looking. After all, this article is just a Mozilla publicity stunt, but I still am impressed that a 12-yr old knows this much about code (even though he lives only a stone’s throw from Silicon Valley and was probably teethed on UNIX manuals!)

For those of you who follow the iPhone Jailbreak Scene, the highly popular Pwnage Tool used to jailbreak the iPhone, iPod Touch and even the iPad now has the ability to Jailbreak Apple’s latest Apple TV 2G model and the first ever third party app is here already!

With the doors to third party developers now open, the creators of NitoTV have jumped in with an App already. Read more »

Amazon takes another step toward reality, with its Kindle e-book platform soon allowing users to lend books to one another for a limited amount of time. The loan will be up to 14 days at a time, and you won’t be able to read the book while a friend is borrowing it (as would be the case in “the real world”). Not all books will support lending, however. It’s entirely up to the publishers and other rights-holders, in a similar system as Google Books operates I guess. Amazon hasn’t set a launch date for lending, but it’s due out “later this year.”

In the meantime, Amazon are making newspapers/magazines available across Kindle apps on all platforms, not just on Kindle devices. Starting with iOS devices in the next couple of weeks, Amazon looks set to get into the iPhone and iPad periodical business.

Microsoft has just made PC gamers very happy, with a relaunch of their Games for Windows Marketplace after a considerable amount of pressure from PC gamers.

The heavy pressure came on Microsoft after Gamers believed that Microsoft had put all their gaming focus into the Xbox platform and forgotten about their needs. Read more »

EA have just acquired mobile game publisher Chillingo for a very nice 12.6 million pounds (approximately $20 Million USD for you American folk).

Chillingo is most famous for being the publisher of the mobile smash hit Angry Birds on the iPhone that has been near the top of the charts ever since its launch earlier this year, Angry Birds has recently been released on the Android platform aswell for free. Read more »

Corporate vice president of Microsoft, Phil Spencer, has made it clear to the public that he doesn’t feel this is the right time for 3D gaming on consoles.

In a naughty bash at rival company Sony PlayStation, who will be focusing on 3D throughout 2011, Phil Spencer told news site CNN that not enough consumers would have the correct 3D TV hardware for 3D gaming to be a viable concern for Microsoft in the near future. Read more »

Sony announced later last week that the highly anticipated racing game Gran Turismo 5 that has been in production for over 4 years would be delayed… again.

People believed the reason behind the delay was to make the title as good as it could possibly be. Read more »

If you ever wanted to create an archive of tweets, whether its of your own, or a subject, so that you can analyze trends, see who tweets or retweets a particular keyword the most, or even filter by source… then say hello to The Archivist.

Created by a bunch of developers at Mix Online, (aka Microsoft), it’s available as both a Windows-based client or a browser-based Web app. This free service lets you search, analyze or download, via an Excel document or ZIP file, all the tweets that have a set of user-definable keywords in them. Using the term ‘digilounge’ for instance, the Web app would be able to produce graphs and pie charts to display tweet volume, the number of tweets versus retweets including ‘digilounge,’ the top words, users and URLs associated with the search term, plus the top source, be it TweetDeck, Web, Seesmic etc.

Of course, you could say that a simple search on Twitter could do much the same, but combining that with powerful analytics provided by The Archivist gives you a greater advantage: you get real insight into why and how prominent the search results really are. You can sign in with your Twitter account and save an auto-updating archive, which then is compared with other archives of your creation.

So if you’ve ever wanted to analyze a Twitter trend, see what people are saying about you on-mass or want to compare keyword usage, then it’s well worth checking out using either the Web app or the Windows-only client. It’s free!

Google certainly doesn’t have the word “complacency” in its dictionary, as it’s announced another addition: a beta feature for Analytics called “In-Page Analytics”, which deals with the fact that there’s been no apt way to visualise how visitors navigate on a website. So, what does it do? Well, it superimposes your Analytics data over your website as you browse through it. This improves understanding of Analytics data and of your visitors’ usage patterns.

In-Page Analytics is already available for all Analytics users who have English as their language. Of course, being a beta means that there’s a chance that not everything will work smoothly, but Google engineers are always working on improving it. There’s a demo video here and you can find out more by going to Google’s Help Center.