Fun with Charades - Initial vision

Vision: To create a fun place where people make new friends online
Target: Teens, college kids, yuppies, casual gamers
Problem: To connect people online through dumb charades

Here's the initial vision, target audience, and problem statement that we started with:

As we thought about this, there were a number of questions:

Do people care at all about charades? Ellen's charades game was wildly popular, and there was a lot of buzz around Heads Up Charades!, but that was not indicative of whether people would want to play online.
Would charades be engaging enough that people would want to play regularly?
If we set up a real-time game to mimic the mechanics of the game we are used to, that would require friends being present at the same time, which may be hard to schedule.
If scheduling was hard, would people be comfortable playing with strangers in game rooms, like online poker?
Wouldn't people freak out just a bit about using video online? Are there communities that are more open to using video online?
If we built an async game with mobile apps so that people could play when they had time, that might work. But would it be practical for people to respond to a challenge by acting while simultaneously holding their smartphones in front of them?
And then, there was the question of whether we had an interest and competencies in gaming.