During a conference call with financial analysts Thursday Benioff, salesforce.com CEO,  said he will unveil a free “stripped down” version of its Chatter social networking software for businesses at the company’s upcoming Dreamforce conference. The CEO said more than 60,000 of Salesforce’s 87,200 customers are now using Chatter. Salesforce turns the Chatter service on at…

Integrating Google Apps with Salesforce.com is a great low cost way for small businesses to improves users’ collaboration, communication and sharing of information. Salesforce for Google apps (Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, and Google Docs) is available and free for all Salesforce users. A premier version with advanced features and direct customer support is also…