Salesforce Chatter Developer Resource Page

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Salesforce Chatter provides a rich suite of collaboration features to any application built on Force.com. With Salesforce Chatter, your users and data can provide a stream of live updates, enhancing how applications, data and knowledge is used. As a developer, you will be able to instantly add social features like profiles, status updates, and real-time feeds to any Force.com application using Chatter technologies.

Here are some of the Chatter features that you will be able to incorporate into your applications:

Profiles: Each user has a visible profile page containing his Chatter wall as well as information about the user, including an image.
Status updates: Users can follow other users and data records, and be notified of status updates and field changes.
Feeds: Activities can be accessed through feeds. For example, you can access an aggregation of all the activity of those that you follow, or drill into only the activity within a particular record.
Security and sharing model: The Chatter platform supports the sophisticated sharing model built into the Force.com platform, ensuring that users see only what you want them to see.
Data model: Developers can utilize the data model underlying Chatter to query or create status updates programatically.

Articles, Code and Webinars

Chatter Workbook - a gentle introduction to developing with Chatter
An Introduction to Developing with Chatter - learn about developing applications with Chatter
Chatter Code Recipes - a set of common code recipes for accessing Chatter data
Building Location-Aware Collaborative Applications on Force.com with Foursquare - integrate Foursquare with Salesforce Chatter for location-aware collaborative apps
Chatter Commons - a large set of code that captures common Chatter coding patterns and functionality
Chatter Developer Preview Tech Talk - a Tech Talk webinar describing Chatter and how to get started
Chatter Cheat Sheet - a deep-dive reference document filled with useful examples
Chatter Challenge - winners of the Chatter developer challenge
Chatter REST API - details on the new REST API for Chatter