There's something about the lives of celebrities that makes people obsessed. I'm not that type of person, but I admit that every now and again I like to know who Angelina is adopting and what Madonna is studying. For entertainment news provided by the community, check out ShowHype. ShowHype is a Digg-like social news site where the users and contributors provide the news and the community gets to vote on whether the story is worth reading. The site would be great if it stopped there, but there's more.
ShowHype is broken into three major parts. The front page contains all of the news submitted by the users. The Charts page tracks the most popular movies, television shows, and music. And the Community page is a place where users can create groups dedicated to specific celebrities and topics and discuss, interact, and submit stories.
All of the top stories are displayed on the front page, and users can vote on them from there. If you're interested in up-to-the minute entertainment news and celebrity gossip, this is where you'll spend most of your time. The news is broken out into multiple categories including the top stories, movie news, celebrity news, television news, and more. If you sign up for an account at ShowHype, you can rate the stories up or down depending on how you feel, or comment on them and interact with other users.
The charts section pulls information from services like Box Office Mojo and Nielsen Media Research to provide the top ten movies, television shows, and albums for a given time period. For more information on a given album, television show, or movie, click on the entry in the top five (the bottom five you have to click through to see) to be taken to the ShowHype story where the item is featured and participate in the discussion there.
In the community section, users can create groups based on their interests, and see if other members of the community share their passions. For example, a celebrity gossip group is the most popular group on the site at the moment, followed up by the group created to provide updates and obtain feedback from the site developers. There's also a group dedicated to paying attention to whether or not Britney Spears does crazy things for attention, a fan club dedicated to VHS and Beta tapes, and fans of the television shows The Wire and Prison Break.
Sure, sites like Digg and Mixx have entertainment sections, but they're usually poorly populated and the site depends completely on the readers and community to provide the stories. ShowHype cheats a little and scrapes a number of popular entertainment news sites and blogs for its hot stories, and the community then votes on them. This ensures a steady feed of news and fresh content, and the Charts and Community pages add even more features to an already attractive social news service.
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