6rounds: the video chat platform with real-time games and an API

6rounds described itself as a social entertainment platform built in Flash that gave people a place to meet, video chat and play together. It joined webcam chats, interactive activities and real-time games in one environment, so two or more users could play against or with each other while seeing each other on video.

In September 2009 the service was chosen as one of the first six Google Wave extensions and was the only video chat extension at that point. Updates to the extension kept coming, among them a live stream of snapshots taken inside waves. The platform's core components were meant to be built into other websites and social networks through widgets, extensions and applications, and developers could add gifts, effects and background themes to the video chat.

At Google I/O in May 2010 the company announced a developer API. Its promise was that a developer could turn an existing social activity or game into a 6rounds video chat experience, or create a new one, in about 15 minutes. Activities could use video streaming and text chat, sync users' events and mouse movements, change backgrounds and webcam effects and send visual gifts.

Gadi Srebnik, VP Product Director, said the focus was to let developers concentrate on game functionality instead of platform limits, and co-founder and COO Ilan Leibovich argued that typical social activities were built around asynchronous play. Planned next steps were a stand-alone widget for embedding activities anywhere on the web, a Facebook video chat application and many-to-many video chat sessions.

On August 17, 2010, TechCrunch reported that the startup and its service would henceforth be called Rounds, and that Rounds had launched a video chat app on Facebook with games, real-time effects and virtual gifts.

The address 6rounds.com still loads in November 2026, but it shows a commercial website about eye surgery and exercise topics, and every address on it leads to that same site. No official page for the platform could be found. The game platform is therefore listed as unconfirmed. Other early social and collaboration titles are collected in the games directory, and background pieces are in the articles section.