As of 8 am this morning, a new social broadcasting site has been launched and you can thank StubHub founder Jeff Fluhr for that.

Known as Spreecast, this new site will allow up to four people to broadcast video feeds, either publicly or privately.

According to the Spreecast website, users can view and talk with one another on the air and also interact with all the people who are watching by responding to their comments and questions, joining them in the chat room, or tweeting with them.

The inspiration for Spreecast, Fluhr says, comes from his own online social interactions, Digital Trends reports.

“We’ve lost an intimacy that can only be restored with authentic face-to-face interaction,” writes Fluhr in an announcement of Spreecast. “This is why I created Spreecast: to bring face-to-face interactions to the Internet in a far-reaching way.”

Spreecast is for those want to be broadcasters, like bloggers or other online personalities wishing to break from their Twitter (News - Alert) and blogging identities to give their audiences something more.

Spreecasts are by default public. The person who starts the conversation gets access to a producer control panel that brings in new questions and speakers.

“We want Spreecast to be as accessible as possible. Spreecasts are recorded and then made immediately available for playback and sharing. The experience is browser-based, so there’s no need to download anything. All you need is a modern browser, a recent version of Adobe (News - Alert) Flash, and a webcam if you want to join the fun on camera,” writes Fluhr. 

So far, Summer Sanders, Olympic gold medalist and TV personality shared her experiences in the Chicago marathon on Spreecast, as well as a group of gamers pulling an all-nighter playing a new video game, Uncharted3. 

Spreecast noted that was their longest Spreecast so far: 11 hours 28 minutes and 10 seconds, as hosted by Malik Forte.

Users need a reasonably up-to-date browser and Adobe Flash Player. Spreecast supports Mozilla Firefox version 3.6 and above, Internet Explorer versions 8 and 9, as well as the latest versions of Chrome and Safari.