Ladies, looking for a paying gig in San Francisco where you get to try on lots of new fashions and then Tweet how “awesome” they look on you? You only have two minutes to convince Levi’s you’re their gal. YouTube skills a must.

The news that both Facebook and LinkedIn are preparing to take their shares public has created a froth of both investor and media excitement. Facebook’s projected $50 billion valuation would be more than Starbucks and Dell. Combined! And the head-scratching headlines don’t end there.

That’s what we’re wondering today as we analyze the end-of-year numbers for 2010 as it pertains to our favorite online creative/socializing activities. Roughly 26 million new blogs were started last year. Not bad, but nothing compared with the growth happening in other areas of social media. Take a look.

We had our doubts it could be done, but it appears this year’s e-Christmas shopping tally of $32.6 billion was not just a record, but it exceeded very ambitious pre-season expectations as well.

It’s not easy to pick out ten things expected to take off in the coming year, let alone 100. But that’s just what JWT’s team of futurists put together in this buzzy slide presentation.

That’s the hard-to-ignore conclusion we draw from the latest online holiday sales figures, which shows a big surge late last week from shoppers cashing in on a “free shipping” gambit rolled out this year by 1,500 retailers.

Facebook is undoubtedly the media phenomenon of the 21st century and advertisers are working hard to keep up with and respond to the ever-changing behavior of young people who dominate the site. What do these influential teens and twenty-somethings think of big brands’ recent arrival on their turf? Nick Mawditt of Kinetic has spent a great deal of time with them. This is what he’s learned.

Facebook is just a cat’s whisker away from acquiring a trade mark in the USA for the word FACE. Fat Face, FaceTime and The North Face will be obliterated by The Social Networking Wizard! Beauty products of the world will be annihilated! My face is no longer my face!

The latest online shopping tally is in and Americans have so far spent just over $17.5 billion through December 5th, up a respectable, but slightly-under-forecast increase of 12% year-on-year. And what’s drawing in the online shoppers? Free shipping.

Sony Ericsson launched a new Facebook giveaway contest last week to celebrate its Xperia X10 mini phone launch enticing fans to compete for a freeby handset. The numbers suggest giving away free stuff is still a tried and true way to get fans to rally around your brand. Go figya.