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Welcome to the July 23 edition of the Startup Search Weekly Web Wrapup. Each week we summarize news and announcements affecting the web technology ecosystem. In this week's issue: Pageflakes introduces a social network, WordPress users get social face-to-face, and Facebook makes its first acquisition.

Pageflakes gets social

Personalized homepage company Pageflakes released a major update incorporating social networking features into each user's shared module pages. Pageflakes users can update a profile, share customized sets of homepage modules, and discover similar Pageflakes members. The new release also includes an updated user interface, themes, and improved support for Apple's Safari web browser.

WordPress users gather for WordCamp

Blog software startup Automattic hosted its second annual WordCamp conference in San Francisco last weekend. The two-day conference brought together 400 WordPress users and developers from around the world.

Facebook makes first acquisition

Social networking site Facebook announced the acquisition of desktop software company Parakey last week for an undisclosed amount. Founders Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt will work on the development of Facebook Platform.