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

BBC Offers Content on P2P Network, Zudeo

BBC Worldwide has announced that it will offer its popular, high-resolution British comedies and dramas, on a new P2P file sharing network, Zudeo.com. The BBC content, will be available on Zudeo’s’ new platform early next year.

According to the agreement with Zudeo’s parent company, Azureus, BBC Worldwide will license international television series, such as Red Dwarf, Strange and Invasion Earth, to users of Zudeo. Other titles include International Emmy award-winning, Little Britain, Doctor Who, Fawlty Towers, Coupling, Keeping Up Appearances, League of Gentlemen and Ideal, among others. Additional content partnerships will be announced in the coming weeks.

Gilles BianRosa, CEO, Azureus said, "BBC Worldwide understands our commitment to providing consumers with a rich entertainment experience and our desire to offer quality content to our diverse global audience. We are thrilled to offer programming that encompasses such a robust fan base, as well as the opportunity to expose a new generation to cult favorites from BBC Worldwide catalog via our new entertainment platform."

Zudeo, a US based, legal P2P file sharing network, enables content providers to publish, showcase, and distribute high resolution, long form content, including video and games in high definition or DVD quality over the Internet, free of charge. The portal also features search, browsing, channels and tagging, as well as easier integration with firewalls. Zudeo will also have enhanced features for P2P streaming, in the near future.

Online video sharing sites