Oh god! Megaupload has fallen and its brethren are dropping like flies! The age of the cyberlocker is passing. No longer will we be able to host a large file somewhere for free and have someone else download it

Editor’s note : This post was written by guest contributor  Aaron Levie , CEO and co-founder of  Box.net . You can read his  previous posts here . Silicon Valley and Hollywood: so close geographically, yet so distant digitally and philosophically.

Whenever a company appoints new leadership here in the tech world, the blogosphere seems to unanimously post about what the new top dog needs to do to make his or her company better. I promise, you’ll see dozens of headlines today talking about what Thorsten Heins must do in order to save BlackBerry. In many cases, I agree with what’s being said

In the same digital asset management space as ResourceSpace and Northplains, Gobbler – sort of like a fancy Dropbox built specifically for backing up, transferring and organizing high bandwidth media files like music, videos and photos (Mike writes a lot about why it’s cool here ) — has raised another $1.75 million in financing. Investors include ff Venture Capital, Black Ocean Group, Mindjolt CTO Aber Whitcomb, Facebook VP Dan Rose, Former Googler Jermey Wenokur, Science’s Mike Jones, and LowerMyBills founder Matt Coffin among others. This new money brings the LA-based startup’s total funding to just over $3 million

The TechFellow Awards is different. Rather than just recognizing outstanding innovators, each of its 20 winners receives $100,000 to invest in startups of their choice. Its purpose

Polyvore , the startup lets web shoppers pull their favorite items any online store and mix and match to create personalized outfits online, has raised $14 million in Series C financing led by DAG Ventures and with participation from Goldman Sachs, Vivi Nevo (NV Investments), Benchmark Capital and Matrix Partners. This brings the company’s total funding to over $22 million

Google’s Bradley Horowitz just announced that as part of a more “inclusive” naming policy, Google+ will now be allow people to employ pseudonyms as their user names. The company’s previous insistence on real names has been the subject of much discussion  — and Google itself said  earlier that it’s trying to refine the policy to encompass different use cases.

Sometimes the nicest of people, when faced with the pressure of competition, make evil stupid decisions.

Good news : You’ve been promoted to CEO ! Bad news : Public perception of your company has tanked over the past few years, and your stockholders are looking at you to save the day. What ever you do first, just hope that you don’t give the world that sound bite that suggests you think everything is okay and that nothing at the company needs to change.

Sony has announced a new line of image sensors that will, in all likelihood, end up in dozens of smartphone models. The improvement is not in megapixels, which have more or less hit a ceiling, but in the actual layout of the light-sensitive wells that make up the pixels in the image. The new sensors have, in addition to the usual red, green, and blue-filtered pixels, an unfiltered pixel element as well that will accept any wavelength of light.