Fred Wilson's fortunes, sexy commenters & latest on Mojungle, MobiTV and Edgeio

The latest in the world of start-ups and venture capital:

Fred Wilson sells home listed at $37.5 million — Fred Wilson, the venture capitalist at Union Square Ventures in New York, who has one of the most widely read VC blogs, AVC, has sold his 15,000-square-foot townhouse in Manhattan. If it closed near the asking price, the 1847 mansion would be the most expensive single-family residence downtown, reports the Observer. In 1996, the home apparently sold for $3.9 million.

In this video, found via Alex Haislip at PE Week, Wilson tells WallStrip: “I went from basically being penniless to having more money than I knew what to do with,” referring to the $3.6 billion sale of Geocities to Yahoo in 1999. Haislip suggests the slimmer pickings lately for Wilson (his Del.icio.us investment was sold to Yahoo for a mere $30 million) may be one reason Wilson put his house on the market. We’re not sure about this, so VentureBeat emailed Wilson for comment. He declined comment.

Don’t have friends commenting on your blog? — Not too late to hire FakeYourSpace, which lets you choose from a selection of ‘models’ to leave you customized comments to look like you have (sexy) friends and are popular online. The basic service is $1.99 month, but they’re offering special of 99 cents a month.

Mojungle for sale on eBay — Mojungle, a site that lets you deliver photos and video to blogs and web sites from your mobile phones, has listed itself on ebay for $60,000. It lets you deliver via SMS, MMS, email, but that’s not enough to lift it above all the competitors out there doing similar things (Shozu, Veeker, Mywaves, etc).

MobiTV, making headway — MobiTV has quietly becoming the wireless television delivery for most major carriers – Sprint Nextel, Cingular, and AT&T, and now apparently Comcast. Now we know why it has raised $100 million — these are huge clients and it had better deliver.

Edgeio expands real estate search — More info here, and how it follows from its acquisition of ARES.

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