LinkedIn lets you upload a new photo of yourself, as many social networks do. But they take it to the next level. Instead of making the user crop her photo, LinkedIn provides a simple intuitive interface for the user to do the cropping via the browser.  A couple of things make this a nice feature. [...]

I spoke at a San Diego TiE event at the end of January. It was a panel of Software Entrepreneurs fielding questions about what the start-up life is like in software these days. Steve Bjorg from MindTouch was there. The two other panelists were Thomas Carter, Founder & CEO, Capital Window  and David Desch, Vice President of Engineering and IT, Digital Force Technologies [...]