said its infrastructure and technology will allow it to handle millions of simultaneous broadcasts.

The application brings together three popular Internet trends -- mobile, video and social networking -- and, if popular, it could help Facebook improve what some consider a currently subpar set of mobile functionality.

Ustream already has an application that lets users of iPhones, iPods and iPads, as well as Android smartphones, broadcast live video from their devices to their Ustream channel. The Ustream channel can be viewed on the Web or on Ustream's mobile applications. This application requires that users create a Ustream account.

However, this new BFF application runs independent of the Ustream website. Users do not need a Ustream account nor a Ustream channel. Users only need to download the BFF application, connect it to their Facebook account and they can start broadcasting video from their iPhone.

The IDG News Service