The release of the F8 platform is creating a new land grab in the Web 2.0 industry today. Its barely months since the F8 release but fellow Facebookers like myself will have noticed the social virality thats mushrooming on our sidebars. Busy as bees, facebookers now have more reasons to waste our time.. :D

Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed Venture Partners have done up some simple monitoring of the top companies that have benefited from F8.

My personal favorites are still Poke Pro, hate those Knock Knock, Horoscopes apps which have become “social spam” recently. Thankfully, Facebook has a convenient way to get rid of such spam in their “Notifications” feature.

On a separate note for entrepreneurs, the recently-concluded Virtual Goods Summit at Stanford unveils what VCs would love to fund today.

They want to find a company that can dominate the Facebook virtual goods platform. Efrusy said a clever startup could leverage the Facebook platform and all the accessible data to own a potentially lucrative –but still undeveloped– part of the Facebook universe.

In relation, for those beginning to see the promise in Facebook, you can also read up on the VentureBeat interview with the RockYou founders. Is it me, or are Asians rising in profile in Web 2.0? There’s the RockYou guys, Justin.TV and the ever-present James Hong of HotOrNot fame. Will you be next?