Becks in Turku and Bridge Collapse - Two things within a week proving the strength of mobilecasting

Beckham's arrival into Finland today to have surgery on his ruptured achilles tendon and last week's collapse of Myllysilta in Turku have proved the power of transmitting the events to the net with the help of mobile broadcasting services. Or perhaps we could call them narrowcasting.

Even if the images delivered live to the internet from user's and ordinary people's mobile phone might not be as spectacular as professional cameramen's, they make it possible that individual people can deliver their "own newscasts" direct to their Facebook walls and transmit the events to their social network. In some cases it can be a powerful tool in people's hands in demonstrations against totalitarian regimes.

In case of Turku, the service used was Bambuser. The service Live2011.com team uses regularly. Technology developed by couple of students from Åbo Akademi and brought to live with a company of Swedish friends.

Here's what Norwegian VG writes on the Becks in Turku.