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Another digital gold rush 又一轮的数字淘金热 Internet companies are booming again. Does that mean it is time to buy or to sell? 互联网公司再次勃兴。这是否意味着买入或者卖出正逢时？ May 12th 2011 | BEIJING AND SAN FRANCISCO | from the print edition PIER 38 is a vast, hangar-like structure, perched on San Francisco’s waterfront. Once a place where Chinese immigrants landed with picks and shovels, ready to build railways during California’s Gold Rush, the pier is now home to a host of entrepreneurs with smartphones and computers engaged in a race for internet riches. From their open-plan offices, the young people running start-ups with fashionably odd names such as NoiseToys, Adility and Trazzler can gaze at the fancy yachts moored nearby when they aren’t furiously tapping out lines of code. 38号坞棚（PIER 38）是坐落在旧金山滨海的一幢巨大棚库状结构的建筑。在加利福尼亚淘金潮时期，这里曾是准备修建铁路的中国移入民带着铁锹铁铲的登陆地，而这些坞棚如今则是一群带着智能电话和电脑埋头于互联网财富竞赛的实业家们的老巢，这些年轻人运营着有着像NoiseToys， Adility 和Trazzler这样名字新潮而古怪的新兴企业，在他们激情四溢的打出一行行的代码之外的时间里，可以凝望到（眺望）停泊在附近的豪华游艇。 “The speed of innovation is unlike anything we’ve seen before,” says Ryan Spoon, who runs Dogpatch Labs, an arm of a venture-capital firm that rents space to young companies at Pier 38. Like many other entrepreneurs, the tenants would love to follow firms such as Facebook and Zynga, a maker of hugely popular online games including Farmville, that have been thrust into the internet limelight in the space of a few short years. “创新的速度与我们先前的所见迥然不同”，在38号坞棚（Pier 38）运行着一家风险资本公司分支，向年轻公司出租空间的Dogpatch Labs 的Ryan Spoon说。和其他许多企业一样，这些天才乐意于追从像脸书（Facebook）和Zynga这样的公司。 Zynga公司是一个包括Farmvile游戏在内的极为风行的在线游戏制造商，它在短短的数年之间里，已经冲进了互联网的聚光灯之下。 Some of the most prominent start-ups are preparing for stockmarket listings or are being bought by big firms with deep pockets. On May 9th LinkedIn, a social network for professionals that took in revenue of $243m last year, set the terms of its imminent initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), which value it at up to $3.3 billion. The next day Microsoft