I agree the current options out there for this aren't very good. I coded up a prototype for this about a year ago: http://buyersvote.com/categories/the-best-e

I agree the current options out there for this aren't very good. I coded up a prototype for this about a year ago: http://buyersvote.com/categories/the-best-email-newsletter-companies http://buyersvote.com/categories/the-best-email-newsletter-c... My biggest challenge: critical mass. My hope was that with some seeded pages it would start to rank for long tail keywords, and it would grow organically from there. This largely hasn't happened unfortunately. I think starting in one niche (ala Facebook), or being prepared to slog through several years of negative cash flow and paid reviews to gain traction (TripAdvisor), or having a giant blog following (StackOverflow) could be what's needed to get critical mass solved.