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Because the [itvt] editorial team is busy working on The TV of Tomorrow Show (March 3rd-4th in San Francisco) and on our new, post-TVOT EBIF Intensive event (March 5th in San Francisco), we are covering a number of stories in this issue in summary form:

Google has filed a patent application that appears to describe a method for collaboratively creating interactive games on top of videos on YouTube.

Here is a round-up of some other interactive TV-related stories we didn't have room for in this issue:

MIPS Technologies, a company which, among other things, provides processors for home entertainment devices, announced this week that it has met what it describes as a "key milestone" in its ongoing efforts to drive the Android platform beyond mobile handsets: two months after announcing its port of the Android platform to the MIPS Architecture, the company says it is making the source code publicly available. It has also launched an Early Access Program for a small group of its key customers, which will have access to specific hardware and code optimizations before they are publicly available. It says that participants in the program will work closely with its engineering team and provide it with feedback and market expertise.

UK broadcaster, Channel 4, has tapped digital agency, Anywhichway, to create an application on its Web site that combines Twitter with Google Maps and GPS technology, in order to build interest in "Alone in the Wild," a show set to debut next month that follows documentary filmmaker, Ed Wardle, as he spends 12 weeks surviving alone in the Yukon.

[itvt] has just published audio interviews with Keval Desai, director of product management at Google and head of the company's Google TV Ads operation; and with Eddie Young and Pete Docherty, CEO and CTO res