System and method for collaborative shopping, business and entertainment

A computer program product comprising one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media having program instructions collectively stored on the one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media, the program instructions executable to cause a computing device to:

• provide an interface to a user of a remote user device in a network;
• receive a user selection of one or more contacts of the user as invitees to a synchronized video sharing session via the interface, wherein participants view content in a synchronous manner on respective user devices of the participants, the content including video content, and wherein the video content is displayed to participants in a synchronized manner such that all participants are simultaneously shown a same frame of the video content;
• send an invitation to the one or more contacts of the user via the network based on the user selection;
• receive an acceptance of the invitation from the one or more contacts of the user;
• provide the content synchronously to the remote user device of the user and other remote user devices of the respective one or more contacts of the user via the interface based on receiving the acceptance from the one or more contacts of the user, wherein the user and the one or more contacts of the user are participants in the synchronized video sharing session and can view the content synchronously during the synchronized session;
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• provide functions of an application to the participants synchronously, wherein the functions enable the participants to interact with the video content in real-time during the synchronized video sharing session, and wherein all participants view interactions with the video content simultaneously.

A system comprising:

• a processor, a computer readable memory, one or more computer readable storage media, and program instructions collectively stored on the one or more computer readable storage media, the program instructions executable by a computing device to:
• provide an interface to a user of a remote user device in a network;
• receive, via the interface, a user selection of one or more contacts of the user as invitees to a synchronized video sharing session wherein participants view content in a synchronous manner on respective user devices of the participants, the content including video content, and wherein the video content is displayed to participants in a synchronized manner such that all participants are shown a same frame of the video content;
• send an invitation to the one or more contacts of the user via the network based on the user selection;
• receive an acceptance of the invitation from the one or more contacts of the user;
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• provide the content synchronously to the remote user device of the user and other remote user devices of the respective one or more contacts of the user via the based on receiving the acceptance from the one or more contacts of the user, wherein the user and the one or more contacts of the user are participants in the synchronized video sharing session and can view the content synchronously;
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• provide functions of an application to the participants synchronously, wherein the functions enable the participants to interact with the video content in real-time during the synchronized video sharing session wherein all participants view interactions with the video content simultaneously.