Social video broadcasting platform unveiled

StubHub co-founder and investor Jeff Fluhr is unveiling his next project, social video broadcasting platform Spreecast, Tech Crunch reports.

Simply put, Spreecast is a social video platform that lets people broadcast together. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Spreecast lets up to four people at a time conduct video broadcasts. Those broadcasts can be watched by hundreds of people who can chat, comment, and ask to join the broadcast.

In other words, it occupies the area between the one-to-many video broadcast sites that have sprung up in the last few years, like Justin.tv, Ustream, or Livestream, and multiperson video chat like Google Hangouts or AOL AV. Or perhaps like group blogging, but for video.

“We've lost an intimacy that can only be restored with authentic face-to-face interaction,” TMC Net quotes Fluhr as saying.

“This is why I created Spreecast: to bring face-to-face interactions to the Internet in a far-reaching way.”