The Most Useful Sites-III

Here i am back again with the next series of the most useful sites.Well i surely hope this list will help in being updated with the best websites around.

Reference

Wikipedia now dominates the reference side of the web, partly because its pages are ranked so highly in Google. It competes with the Encyclopedia Britannica, which isn't free. However, another traditional alternatives is the HighBeam Encyclopedia, which searches more than 57,000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia

• Wikipedia
• HighBeam Encyclopedia
• Martindale
• OneLook
• InfobelWorld- Telephone Directories

Applications

If you have tasks shared between people at different locations, it makes sense to access password-protected sets of work. That's where these come handy:

• Backpack
• Basecamp
• Ta-da Lists
• Google Docs & Spreadsheets
• Softwaregarden
• Calpha

News

The BBC marches on at the front. The New York Times site is vast (though it has shut off some of its content behind a "paywall").

• BBC NEWS
• The New York Times
• Google News
• OhmyNews International
• NowPublic.com