Who's going to capture the social news reader market? Thirst throws its hat in the ring

Reblogged from GigaOM:

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At this point, there's no question the internet offers more than we can reasonably ingest. Even trying to keep up with Buzzfeed's Beyonce posts while holding down a full-time job would be exhausting.

So who exactly is going to organize the web's information into a digestible format? That's still TBD. Flipboard and Zite and Prismatic are just a few solutions (if you look beyond my beloved Google Reader to social, iPad-oriented apps), but they haven't necessarily won the market yet.

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For me, somewhat of a news junkie, Flipboard and Google Currents are the best of this batch. But will check out Thirst.