John Allsopp has a new platform Conffab that is for livestreaming conferences as well as providing on-demand access to past recorded conference presentations. Some of which are behind a paywall.

He’s got good reason to productize this. It boils down to incentives. If it all works, it’s a better place for all: presenters, organizers, and the audience. He lays it all out here. Just chucking videos on YouTube doesn’t build the right incentives and doesn’t make anybody but Google money.

It’s early days I think. CSS Day talks are on there, and John has provided me a “gift link” for my talk on there, and assured me that sharing it publicly like this is totally cool. So here we go:

My CSS Day talk on Scope on Conffab

I should also mention that Frontend Masters has a whole new area of the site where they publish isolated videos (not part of a whole course).

I took my learnings on CSS @scope and recorded three fresh videos on interesting things @scope could do. I haven’t and don’t plan to publish them anywhere else, so if you’re a member there, you might enjoy these focused nuggets on all that!

Three video thumbnails for a series on CSS by Chris Coyier, featuring titles 'DOM Blasters', 'Proximity Scope', and 'Donut Scope'. Each thumbnail includes a graphic design element and a smiling photo of Chris Coyier.