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HeyCosmo Prankster Makes April Fools Easy

If you are still looking to do something fun for April Fools Day today but do not have any idea what you want to do you might want to check out a new Facebook application called HeyCosmo Prankster. Now, I have written about HeyCosmo previously and they are offer a prank call application on Facebook. With HeyCosmo Prankster prank calling your people  is made easy. HeyCosmo Prankster does the work for you by simply typing your wicked custom message,  enter their telephone numbers and we do the magic behind the scene. Done! Your April Fools prank made easy thanks to HeyCosmo Prankster.

HeyCosmo Launches Free Interactive WebCam Collaboration Service

HeyCosmo, a product of Arsenal Interactive a Mountain View, California-based startup founded by Jason Im, launched into external beta yesterday to offer an interactive webcam platform with a host of collaboration tools.

I first met, HeyCosmo founder and CEO, Jason Im at Community Next in February and then hung out with him at the W Hotel in SF and got a preview of the product after the Web 2.0 Expo. In seeing the demo I could see HeyCosmo becoming extremely popular as it adds a "real" element to normal online interaction. It blends a Meeting Place or WebEx type application with the visual interactivity via a web cam. However, HeyCosmo does not appear to be positioning itself as a business application but more a fun way to sync up and have fun with friends online. With HeyCosmo you can have up to 10 live web-cam video participants and up to 50 people can listen, watch, and chat during a session. So imagine leveraging HeyCosmo to play a crazy game of poker online. You don't have to imagine too hard because HeyCosmo is already helping you to do it - check out the screen-shot below.

Since HeyCosmo is in beta it is only currently offered for use with Internet Explorer but I would expect that to change with time as HeyCosmo works out all the beta kinks. TechCrunch offers additional perspective on HeyCosmo.