Ever started a private chat with someone in your team and noticed the silhouette that shows up?  We put the silhouettes there a while ago with the intention that some day you’d be able to actually see a real photo.  Today is that day.

If you head on over to http://hipchat.com/account you’ll notice some new UI that lets you choose and upload a photo:

Upload Photo UI

Once you upload a photo here, anyone who starts chatting with you in the HipChat client will get to see something a little better than that old boring silhouette. Unless that’s what your face looks like.

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