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 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 [...]
Over the past few months — even before we formalized the concept of Pointless Corp. — we’ve been working here-and-there on a project called SpeakerRate. SpeakerRate is a community site for event speakers, attendees, and organizers. We’ve been all three of these at one point or another, and we felt that a site like SpeakerRate [...]