I’m not an advocate of asking random people on the Internet to help you with your personal problems. But if you think there’s value in crowd-sourcing solutions, there are plenty of question-and-answer services on the Web to help you. One such service, Fun Advice, brings social networking aspects to the mix, and allows you to connect with members whose advice you trust.

Most question-and-answer services, such as ShouldI, allow you to pose your questions to a community, sit back, and wait for answers to roll in from people who have been in your situation and want to offer their help or just have an opinion to share. At ShouldI, you’re allowed to rate the trustworthiness of a member and the helpfulness of the answers they provide. Fun Advice doesn’t really allow you to rate members and responses, but you can add members that you trust or know as friends and keep track of the questions they’ve asked and the answers they’ve provided to others.

If you want to ask the Fun Advice community a question, sign up for a free account and ask away. Select the appropriate category for your question, type in your question, and submit it. Your question will be available for members to answer instantly. Answers show up underneath the question (along with some ads), and featured questions make it to the front page.

The answers tend to be conversational, and the answers are entirely based on people’s opinions–as opposed to fact or research. This makes the service great if you’re just curious what people think about a specific issue, but not if you want technical or specific advice on a certain topic, troubleshooting a problem, or research leads.

Fun Advice has a strong social-network backbone underneath the question-and-answer service. When you sign up for an account, you can customize your profile with location information and a blurb about you and your life. You can upload photos for your Fun Advice account, and comments from other members appear on your profile. Your Fun Advice friends, questions they’ve answered, and other friend activity also appears on your profile, as well as the questions you’ve asked and answered.

Fun Advice is simple, but it has a relatively robust social-networking engine built underneath it. The community at Fun Advice may be growing, but because the site’s strength is social networking, the question-and-answer functions take a backseat to traditional social networking features: Members spend more time commenting on each other’s profiles, making friends, and sharing photos than they do asking and answering questions.

Mainstream Holdings announced on Monday that it has raised $29.6 million to help launch its social media start-up, Moli, from investors including Home Depot co-founders Bernard Marcus and Kenneth G. Langone, and Vantis Capital Management managing member Steven D. Holzman.

Moli, which launched today at the DEMO 08 conference, allows members to manage multiple social network profiles from one account, so members can separate their social, business and family relationships and keep control over their privacy.

The company was founded by former E-Trade CEO Christos Cotsakos.

Mainstream will use the funds to accelerate the international expansion of Moli, which is currently available in the U.S., U.K. and Ireland.

Multi-platform entertainment programmer LX.TV has been acquired by NBC’s Local Media Division. LX.TV began producing hi-def programming for NBC Universal’s (NYSE: GE) WNBC last January. The company will become a standalone unit within the Local Media Division and will produce “cultural and lifestyle programming” across the group’s local media platforms.

Former MTV execs Joseph Varet and Morgan Hertzan founded the local entertainment company as Code.TV, a broadband channel for young, affluent urbanites, in 2006 with funding from family and friends. While no one is talking money, we hear the deal could be worth about $10 million, not a huge hit but a more than decent exit. (In response to a query I just got, “could be worth” is the key—not saying they got $10 million cash.)

 Fitness Singles (http://www.fitness-singles.com) and Active.com, an online community of The Active Network, have teamed up to serve single adults who engage in active and fitness-oriented lifestyles. With the arrangement, The Active Network is helping their members connect to a large database of like-minded, active singles by way of Fitness Singles.

Since its inception in 2003, Fitness Singles has been the fastest-growing online dating community for sports and fitness enthusiasts. With Fitness Singles’ user-centric interface and emphasis on a broad range of fitness categories, the agreement with Active.com was a natural progression and ensures Fitness Singles’ continued leadership in online relationships for active singles.

“This agreement is great news for active singles who focus on health and fitness,” said Christopher Mattioli, President of Fitness Singles. “Whether you’re into bodybuilding (http://www.fitness-singles.com/unregistered-results_fitness.asp?fitness=Bodybuilding), running (http://www.fitness-singles.com/unregistered-results_fitness.asp?fitness=Running), cycling (http://www.fitness-singles.com/unregistered-results_fitness.asp?fitness=Cycling), weight training, yoga, working out, hiking, playing sports, or any number of other activities, Fitness Singles is where active singles get together.”

“In the past five years, we’ve become the Number One dating site for fitness oriented, single adults,” he continued. “With our relaionship with Active.com, we are making it even easier for more singles to find like-minded partners, no matter what their interests.”

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American Uranium Corporation (OTCBB: AUUM)

American Uranium Corporation closed at $1.01 Friday, trading 3,500 shares.

Company News- January 14, 2008: American Uranium Amends Pinetree-Reno Creek JV Agreement

American Uranium Corporation (”American” or “the Company”) (OTCBB:AUUM) announced earlier today an amendment securing full 60% rights to its cornerstone Reno Creek property. The Pinetree-Reno Creek JV property holds known historical resources totaling approximately 14M lbs U3O8 and has been demonstrated to be amenable to ISR mining.

AUUM CEO Dr. Bob Rich said, “I’m delighted with this improvement in the JV agreement with Strathmore, and am anxiously anticipating the start of permitting and other development activities at the Reno Creek deposit in early 2008. The removal of this provision is consistent with our strategy of moving this asset into production as soon as possible.”

As part of the amendment, American Uranium Corporation agreed to increase its exploration and development expenditures from US $5 million to US $12.375 million to earn an initial 22.5% interest in the project. Strathmore agreed to rescind its 11% buyback provision under the terms specified by the original agreement. All other terms as per the original agreement remain unchanged.

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