Triviathis blog

Back from a quick break. Here are some highlights of goings-on around here:

• Traffic spike! - we've gotten a lot more traffic lately. More signups and more people just looking for answers to questions.
• Facebook app in progress - we're building an app for facebook!

Advanced Happy New Year to everyone. Try some New Year's trivia questions.

January 4 is National Trivia Day. Get your friends to play some trivia with you!

We will be releasing a Facebook app to play trivia in a few weeks. It will largely have the same functionality as triviathis.com. If you have any suggestions for things you would like to see in the app please leave a comment.

Christmas is approaching. Here's some fun trivia to go with it:
http://triviathis.com/tags/christmas

Some samples:

• Who/What is Parson Brown in the Christmas song "Winter Wonderland"?
• How do you say "Merry Christmas" in France?
• What did the traffic cop yell to Frosty in "Frosty the Snowman"?
• What's the dog's name in "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"?
• From the movie "It's a Wonderful Life", how do you know an angel has received its wings?

We've completely changed the look of Triviathis! We're aiming for the new look to give Triviathis more of a game-y feel and be less business-ey. Let us know your comments!

Two upcoming features:

• Redesign: We're doing a full redesign of the site. Should go live in a few weeks. Stay tuned!
• Scoring: We're going to roll out the scoring system bit by bit starting with global top scores: most questions answered, greatest percentage correct, greatest number correct. After that we're planning on drilling down these categories of scoring by tag so users can see where they rank highest based on different topics.

We've modified the layout a little more to be more friendly and pretty. We're working on creating different ways to play trivia as well and will have them available through the "feature" box on the homepage soon.

Traffic is up and we're getting crawled by Google faster now.

We've submitted to the SXSW Web Awards 2009 contest in the Games category as well, so stay tuned on that.