In the cloud computing space, Salesforce.com is once again showing that it has vision about how the workplace of tomorrow will change. At the end of 2009, Salesforce.com acquired a company to bolster the site’s social capabilities. The social fabric now known as Salesforce Chatter was a result of that acquisition. Now, Salesforce.com has just purchased another company known as Rypple. As a result of this and similar moves by enterprise application providers, I suspect Fortune 500 executives will flock rapidly to a new buzzword: “gamification.” More...