ShowHype.com - A Digg For Celebrity Gossip

Admit it, you've probably paid a few visits to celebrity gossip sites like Perez Hilton and thesuperficial.com. Embarrassingly, sometimes it's kind of fun to check out the latest buzz on Lindsay Lohan's wild partying or Britney's latest disastrous performance. Now, you can check up on all your favorite celebs and associated entertainment news in a Digg-like community on ShowHype.com. ShowHype is a new social bookmarking site from the creators of BallHype (sports-related social bookmarking) which pulls content from thousands of celebrity gossip blogs across the net and lets you vote on them. Like Digg, if a story receives enough votes, it will be featured on the main page. You can also submit your own stories as well as create a personal profile to network with other ShowHype visitors. Naturally, you can add friends, leave them "Sticky Notes" (messages), and participate in groups and forums much like you can on Digg. Another interesting feature is "Charts", which lets you see how a certain movie or album has been performing since it was released. Soon, ShowHype will be coming out with expanded content that will also feature books and theater.

"ShowHype finds the top stories in entertainment for you to vote on and discuss. With thousands of celebrity, movie, TV, and music blogs out there, keeping track of the best content is nearly impossible. But with ShowHype, all the day's stories are scanned, categorized, and ranked for you, so in just a few minutes you can catch up with the latest happenings in entertainment".

ShowHype is a surprisingly well-designed site for having been launched only yesterday. The site has a pleasing interface and is easy to navigate, and anyone crossing over from Digg or other popular social bookmarking sites will adapt right away. ShowHype does a good job helping transform what was once a much more tech-y genre of startups to something that caters more to the masses; a lot of the social-bookmarking jargon is demystified here. Lastly and most importantly for this sort of site, there really is some juicy gossip available: Lindsay Lohan spent US $70,000 on tanning last year??

Not much to complain about here, but the personal profile section could be cleaned up a bit. Does ShowHype offer customization options for the profiles that let you unstick text and image boxes and re-arrange them? The layout seems somewhat cluttered as it is.