Wouldn’t it be great to be able to publish live video broadcast using only your own mobile phone? Now we can, or rather, we will be able to soon. A Finnish upstart Floobs has come up with an idea that will allow users to broadcast their live video footage over the Internet. The whole project is still in an early stage, so there’s nothing much to see on their site, except an announcement for the upcoming service.

Floobs has plans to offer a free TV channel for everyone enabling people to broadcast live shows (or pre-recorded material) for free. The service is scheduled to start later this year. They’ve opened a Finnish language test service this week, and are planning an English service site in November. The service will be targeting groups and communities that otherwise don’t get airtime on mainstream television channels. Floobs will charge for professional broadcasting tools and will offer advertisement options to advertisers.

This may be an interesting development in citizen journalism. Soon everyone will be able to broadcast live events from the spot using nothing more than their own mobile phone. If this service becomes popular over time, TV reporters may find themselves in a tight spot (by the time a TV network reporter gets to a location, someone will have streamed live footage over the Internet). Oh, and just think of the cash you could get for exclusive footage simply by being on the spot at the right time.

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