Quick Pitch: Sococo makes Team Space, a new mode of online communication that uses smart spaces to make online communication natural and intuitive.

Genius Idea: The virtual office is as old as the Internet itself. From lightweight options, including chat rooms Yammer and Skype to more robust solutions in the vein of Basecamp, Colaab and the almost defunct Google Wave, there are a host of online tools that exist simply to make business-related person-to-person and person-to-team communication easier. Socoo enters the crowded space with its interpretation on online communication: Team Space.

Team Space is an always-on group communication tool for remote teams, where team members are organized at desks in a virtual office building and can interact with each other through voice, chat and multi-screen sharing.

The Team Space can include private offices, common areas, conference rooms and personal spaces. The service is “alive” thanks to a feature called Social Awareness which allows users to see who is talking to whom, who is free to engage with and who is busy at work.

As a user, you can click in to any of the areas to join meetings in progress or start a one-on-one conversation with a coworker. Once you join a room, you’re immediately connected to room members via voice, chat and screen share. You also have your own personal space where you can share applications and documents with other Team Space users.

Sococo recently launched at DEMO and, for now, the Team Space software is available in beta for Windows; a Mac OS X version is currently in alpha and you’ll need to contact Sococo to grab it.

Sococo’s Team Space is certainly a neat twist to an old problem, but we’re curious to see if it actually becomes a practical solution to team communication. Obviously, the limited Mac support will be a hinderance to adoption for the time-being. Also, will it be a system resource hog? Will all team members embrace it? What about team members who only have mobile capabilities? These are fair questions that will influence user adoption as well.

What do you use to collaborate and connect with remote team members? Will you be trying Team Space? Share your thoughts in the comments.