Rick at ReadWriteWeb has a good write-up about SpeakerRate. He sets up the reason why SpeakerRate exists really nicely with this intro:
If you’re a speaker, you know that standing in front of a crowd isn’t half as hard as getting critical feedback on your talks. People who disliked it will generally remain silent or opt [...]
We’ve often talked about creating a running feed of what the rest of the team is doing across various developer-oriented sites that we use and then inviting others to see that feed as well. What started as some informal discussion was launched into the world in the wee hours of Saturday morning with minimal [...]
We posted recently about SpeakerRate, our first official Pointless Project. It was behind a private beta wall, and we invited in a small group of folks to provide feedback so we could make it better before releasing it to the world. Their feedback was great, and some of it was “why the wall?” For this [...]