San Francisco based  Blog search and tracking company Technorati has purchased AdEngage, an online ad network that reportedly serves over 12 billion ads across 4,000 websites per month.Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

AdEngage’s platform to lay groundwork for self-service ad network, Technorati Engage, which targets blogs and social media sites. Engage went live in private alpha yesterday.

PollDaddy was never related to GoDaddy, but now it is part of the WordPress family. Automattic, the developer of the WordPress blogging platform, has acquired Irish startup Polldaddy for an undisclosed sum.

The purchase gives WordPress an infusion of polling technology and seems to be justified simply on the basis that bloggers love polls.

Adobe has just made the prerelease version of Flash Player 10 available for download for Mac, Windows and Linux.

Flash 10,which  Adobe today officially released  was  previously  known under the code name “Astro,” adds a large number of new features to the Flash player like 3D support, the new text engine, and the Pixel Bender image processor, which was formerly known as Hydra.

When away from home or when my Broadband connection server goes down, i often use Airtel GPRS to access the internet. The speeds offered by Airtel GPRS are very low and it is real pain to open some heavy websites.

I have found 6 ways to get my work done even on slow internet connection,
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Photobucket, the world’s leading standalone photo and video sharing Web site,  announced the addition of new features to make it easier and more fun for users to organize and personalize their photo and video collections.

Photobucket users can Now choose from a vast array of pre-made themes or quickly create their own album design theme to personalize any of their Photobucket albums. Users can also take advantage of new tools to more easily organize the media in their albums.