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California City California: Google Tourism

California City, California is one of those massive urban development projects designed to spike real estate speculation and growth in 1965. The city was planned to spread over 203 square miles around a central park with a fake lake. 

Never happened. Only 14k people made a home of it somwhere to the west of this map.  A view from Google's eye in the sky shows the miles and miles of roads to nowhere.

A couple of days, a couple buddys and a couple of dirtbikes could make a nice weekend of this abandoned relic.

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StumbleUpon Surpasses Facebook in Driving U.S. Web Traffic | Adweek

For over a year, the all-powerful Facebook has been the top social media site driving Web traffic in the U.S. But this past month, Facebook fell to second place, GigaOM reports.

According to global Web analytics service StatCounter, Web discovery engine StumbleUpon is now the biggest traffic driver among social media websites in the U.S. Data shows that StumbleUpon dethroned Facebook in mid-June, with StumbleUpon now driving around 49 percent of traffic and Facebook falling to 37 percent.

StumbleUpon, which was founded in 2001, was sold to eBay in 2007 for $75 million before its co-founders bought it back along with a group of investors in 2009. Since then, the site has been working “quietly and diligently” at a comeback, says GigaOM.

Back in February, StumbleUpon briefly surpassed Facebook in StatCounter hits for two weeks, but Facebook was quickly back on top. This time, StumbleUpon is regaining traction at the same time that Facebook users are fleeing the site and Twitter is apparently having trouble getting its own users to stick around—which could mean that StumbleUpon might hold onto the top spot for a little longer.

via adweek.com

This shouldn't surprise anyone who uses stumble upon. Personally, I am 50 times more likely to find content via stumble upon than Facebook.

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