HeyCosmo: Webcams Meet Group Collaboration

HeyCosmo, I knew that someone would get this one right!

HeyCosmo, when they hit me up the other day, I was in the middle of course of working my social media person gig.

I would have loved to spend the time on the phone chatting and learning more. One thing I knew was that if they hit up Rex, than I know they would hit up the site that more VC/angel types read religiously on a daily basis.

I like what I see of the web cam, chat, and Texas Hold ‘em that they have incorporated into their site. Now I’m sure there will be more than just a card game.

1. Is online Casino illegal in U.S?

2. Can the government shut down HeyCosmo for illegal operating casino in California?

3. Dude you have pay huge taxes… You can’t run online casino. Homeland security and FBI would put eyes on Mafia operating online casino.

4. I think it’s illegal to have online casino article published.

5. In NY state. you can get arrest and throw into jail for operating online casino.

6. Online casino is not equal to gay marriage, seperation church and state, etc…

7. columbia drug lords, criminals, bomber man controls online casino

8. VCs should not throw money on Casino. Why? Investors will get arrested. FBI will put you in chair and ask you dumb question.

9. You still pay huge huge taxes

10. No casino ADS found everywhere across the U.S

Where can you play poker where they have 2 jack and queen of spades in a deck?

Hi,

This is quite a fun concept in video conferencing, which has been around for a long time. This is more like an interactive MySpace area with air traffic control features. It will be interesting to see where this goes.

Regards,
Coral

Never made it through their non-skippable Flash intro. Welcome to 1997.

yeah that is a hella of a flop -

- The enviroment seems good / if myspace bought out - and had interactive play areas for friends amongst friends /

-RB

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sorry thats HEYCOSMO

Strange: The picture clearly says “play for points.” Do Colombian druglords control fake online points, too? If so, maybe they should look into a new line of work (dry cleaning?).

Video conferencing has still yet to take off but someone, sometime is going to figure it out. Maybe these guys are the start of that. On a side note, what are the odds someone else has a royal flush on this deal?

Smallish point, but it doesn’t work with Firefox.

video group cyber, wtf else do you think this is good for?

not able to access it on IE 7.0.5730.11

I only recently discovered HEYCOSMO and am having a blast playing. HEYCOSMO provides a fun and interesting environment that is unparalleled to anything else I have seen on the web. This dynamic new concept is a social and fun application for video conferencing which allows me to stay in touch with friends and enjoy a casual game of cards. Gone are the days when you can win online without a good poker face. This incorporates an aspect of traditional poker which has long been lacking from online versions. Now I can call the bluff of my friend who is about to soil himself as the third heart appears on the turn. In addition, the online points system provides a fun yet competitive environment similar to other online poker sites without endangering the user of loosing his rent money. I really hope this catches on

The best site I have ever come across for virtual collaboration. It is a cool tool for all the younger generation seeking online social collaboration, with a context. The context could be fun gaming night, movie nights, remote birthday parties, real estate seminars, etc… Truly mind boggling and something that is going to take off and compete with Myspace eventually with a more realtime touch to it.. Kudos to HeyCosmo!!!!!!!

Some really weird comments on this post. It seems that Rex and Strange are completely insane and Ryan and Snake are employed by HeyCosmo.

Anyway, this looks cool, but I suspect that it will be difficult to play poker (or do any of that other crap) while some yahoo is waving his junk around in the top left video box.

I think that Hey Cosmos stands a terrific chance of enabling greater community online. This will be a great way for remote friends with common interests to hang-out together. It will also make it possible for people to have a heretofore unachievable live feed experience (at virtually no incremental cost). The platform can also support many different types of revenue-producing opportunities.

All-in-All, I’d say that this could be a real winner!

As noted by the previous note from Robert, it appears that heycosmo does in fact stand a very good chance to enable greater community to interact and communicate via video, audio and games!

Anyways, the comments on this posting is funny as hell!!! I did sign-up and logged into to play texas hold’em and it’s awesome. Get your web-cams on and let’s play. As an FYI, I did have a three of a kind while testing it with two other people, but I wish there were more people when I was playing.

Send me an email if you want to set a time for a competition/tournament!

This is the greatest thing since sliced bread!!!

I see all kinds of uses for this solution from fun chat rooms between friends to long distance learning solutions for schools and everything in between.

Just tried it out with a couple of friends in remote. One guy was happened to be in an interesting training session, so we all stayed there for a while. Sound is ok, video is good. The cool thing is this is all free. Think next will try is to use this to live monitor our new puppy at home. Hope they don’t have time limit on how long you can keep a room.

This is fun, but needs many players for heycosmo to become real fun. I have visited the site and found that it is a lot better than Yahoo Game and others. But, couldn’t find real players there. Hope to see many when i visit next time, maybe tomorrow.

When can I spend my points on phat loot? Do I get extra points for being pretty?

You HeyCosmo employees are ridiculous…

How about a round of strip poker with real people coast-to-coast? Anyone in?

I think if this web site takes off, I won’t wonder if they package up their codec/technology and position against Adobe Flash media server (their pricing model is ridiculous).

I see this technology being used in numerous ways. All the best HeyCosmo.

Adobe Wakeup!

I think you should have mentioned it only supports IE ..

No Firefox support.

if you were smart you saw Apple dev-con where steve jobs showed people communicating and sharing/quick looking through the docs. All through apple. If i buy an apple, and i does bidness…which i gonna chooses?

lol, I’m with Meebo, this is what the adult industry has been waiting for!

Hey man, this is great. When you guys going to open this for FireFox?

Wow… many, if not most, home webcam users have Macs due to webcams being built into every Mac. What a brilliant idea, guys. I can’t wait to see your Outlook add-on for Unix only.

interesting idea. i just signed up and it looks pretty good. its like a swiss army knife in that it does a little bit of everything. you guys should give it a test drive. it’s free, so you’ve really got nothing to lose.

and yes, this is exactly what the porn industry is waiting for… it’s the best thing to happen to porn since

darn…. my post got messed up. i meant to end it with {insert porn starlet name}

This is a rapidly evolving area of technology that is in search of a behavior. Video as a social networking addition is a recent phenomena outside of porn.

Heycosmo has at least frame the value of being their video tech around the idea of doing something together other than just talking. Operator11 has focused more on the Andy Warhol-esque people as personality.

I think its too early to tell what will work. Though I suspect that it has more to do with game play and information dissemination than with voyeurism and exhibitionism.

I’m confused… the posting said “The feature list for HeyCosmo is impressive, combining tradition web cam technology with virtual meeting space similar to WebEx and others; a multimedia window can display most things on a user’s desktop including videos, images and games.” but I see poker!!!

Can someone please arrange a time/date maybe using meetup or whatever to coordinate a game?

TC readers… if you catch Mike Arrington playing heycosmo take a snapshot and post it somewhere on the site

Blah blah blah! I like their Texas Hold’em!

Hey Mike - you should go ahead and coordinate a silicon valley fat & ugly ceo tournament!

Yes…lets play poker texas holdem yep…heycosmo is got it right..this is going to fun playing with my granpa, dad, brother and friends online. Can’t wait to start…way to go heycosmo.

Pretty interesting site. We’ve all been waiting for something like this. Live video chat - catch up with old friends …wish your parent’s a happy anniversary …walk through a training session with your east coast sales staff –all live. This can be applied to so many different applications. The poker game is just the tip of the iceberg for this kinda stuff.

Keep up the good work HeyCosmo!

Like most people have already mentioned on this post. I like what these folks have done, but support for FireFox maybe needed to allow a larger population to access and benefit from their offerings. These folks have built something very different than most web 2.0 start-ups and would like to see them making an impact. Are these folks ramping up and looking for a relationship with MySpace/Fox, Google, Yahoo, Electronics Arts, IAC?

In my opinion, it would be very interesting to see how much progress they make over the next few months.

Lastly… web-cams, live video and etc. is hitting the market hard!

P.S. someone should arrange a HeyCosmo MeetUp session

Anyone partying at HeyCosmo?

This is cool as the upcoming iPhone… Are these folks planning to build a monster portal/social networking site or gaming site? I could see them going after PopCap, Yahoo Games, EA/pogo, MSN and etc…… but with a unique approach of binding the users via live video. Very novel concept and could be the next phase of social networking and online gaming… Convergence of best of best? It would be very interesting to monitor HeyCosmo over the next few months… I wasn’t able to find much info on their investors, but please share them!