I spent the last week hosting the Digital Wallet Foundry event in Shoreditch\BrickLane area in London, UK with some of my Microsoft colleagues.This area in recent times has become one of the hippest areas in London similar to the SOMA\Mission districts in San Francisco. Both are seeing a new wave of startup and developer activity similar to what happened leading to the last tech boom in the Silicon Valley. Both have seen an influx of young developers with new ideas of how technology will shape the world in the coming years. It looks like the developers in the UK are beginning mimic the energy of the Silicon Valley and this is very nice to see
Developers at this event were able to crank out innovative apps in a matter of days ... see more at http://finextra.com/News/FullStory.aspx?newsitemid=24664
