今日科技：公寓交换平台Airbnb用户遭洗劫

    ·游戏机现在在游戏市场上只占40%的份额，那我们真正的优势是什么？我们有一个新的硬件平台，而且我们每隔90天就会推出新的软件。现在我们增长最快的平台是iPad，而就在18个月前，它还根本不存在。”

    ——电子艺界公司（Electronic Arts）首席执行官约翰•里奇蒂洛（苹果资讯网站TUAW）

    "Consoles today are 40% of the game industry, so what do we really have? We have a new hardware platform, and we're putting out software every 90 days. Our fastest growing platform is the iPad right now, and that didn't exist 18 months ago."

    -- Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello (TUAW)

    ·公寓对租公司Airbnb不久前刚刚进行了一轮融资，从安德里森•霍洛维茨基金（Andreessen Horowitz）和DST Global等投资者那里募得1.13亿美元。这轮融资刚刚过去了几天，Airbnb就传出噩耗。一个租客把房东的房子洗劫一空，还加以大肆破坏。房东说：“他们在上了锁的壁橱门上捣了一个大洞，找到了我藏在里面的护照、现金、信用卡和我奶奶的首饰。他们还拿走了我的相机、iPod和一台旧笔记本，还有一个外接的备份硬盘，里面都是我的照片和日记……几乎就是我的整个人生。他们还找到了我的出生证明和社保卡，我相信他们肯定影印了这两份证件——用的就是我好心好意留下来方便租客使用的打印机和复印机。”事件发生后，Airbnb公司已经表态，愿意对这位房东进行经济赔偿，并且帮她找到新的住处。（科技博客TechCrunch）

    ·创意工作者社交平台Behance Network的首席执行官、作家斯科特•贝尔斯基认为，苹果公司（Apple）的首席运营官蒂姆•库克现在的作用要比史蒂夫•乔布斯重要得多。（科技资讯网站Wired UK）

    ·20家值得关注的热门硅谷初创公司。【科技博客《商业内幕》（Business Insider）】

    ·近期社交网络平台Google+的访问量稍有下降，而且用户的平均访问时长也同样略有下降。不过考虑到现在还是Google+的早期阶段，因此这种下降也许只是说明用户已经渐渐习惯了它的功能，而并不是说它的受欢迎程度在下滑。（科技资讯网站ZDNet）

    ·为什么Facebook无法在中国获得成功。【《广告时代》（Ad Age）】

    译者：朴成奎

    * Just a few days after apartment-swapping startup Airbnb snatched up $113 million from investors like Andreessen Horowitz and DST Global comes news of an Airbnb horror story in which a host's home was ransacked and trashed by a renter. "They smashed a hole through a locked closet door, and found the passport, cash, credit card and grandmother's jewelry I had hidden inside," the host said. "They took my camera, my iPod, an old laptop, and my external backup drive filled with photos, journals… my entire life. They found my birth certificate and social security card, which I believe they photocopied – using the printer/copier I kindly left out for my guests' use." The startup has since offered to financially compensate the host and help her find new housing. (TechCrunch)

    * Book author and Behance Network CEO Scott Belsky argues that Apple (AAPL) COO Tim Cook may be more more important now than Steve Jobs. (Wired UK)

    * 20 hot Silicon Valley startups to watch out for. (Business Insider)

    * Google+ traffic has decreased slightly and so has the average length of time users spend on the social network, but at this early stage, that's probably more indicative of users simply getting used to its features rather a downward trend. (ZDNet)

    * Why Facebook might not win over China. (Ad Age)