Our man at Dreamforce alerted us to SFDC’s big announcement regarding the launch of Chatter.  Read the skinny on it from ZDNet: SalesForce.com kicks off Dreamforce, announces Chatter.

“The company, in a statement, says Chatter will “revolutionize the workplace” by leveraging social networking models that have become popular among the mainstream, notably Facebook, and bringing them to a secure and private cloud where people, content, and applications will have profiles feeds and groups.”