At the start of the year we had three priorities for Affino: to make it more usable, more mobile and more commercial. We focused on these throughout the year, and added in three more related priorities: to make it faster, more scalable and more stable.

We brought out 7 releases during the course of the year and delivered over 1,400 update projects, some were minor fixes whilst others were major projects which took weeks to deliver.

The Affino 2011 Highlights Mindmap gives pointers of all the key Affino developments over the year. It’s broken down by key target and application areas.

The Mindmap, it’s best to download the PDF from the link below, highlights all the key aspects in order of priority and significance in each area. It’s a useful resource to spot any aspects you might have missed.

We’ll be covering these in more detail over the next couple of days in posts which summarise the past year’s worth of Affino developments, and which we’ll then followup with the roadmap for the coming year.

A quick visual scan of the mindmap will show you that the Affino 6.0.4 release is primarily focused on Community, but there are also some great updates in every area of Affino. The very nature of Social Commerce means that all elements overlap and it can be hard to categorise some of the improvements. The new Video Promotion Panel could have gone under any of Media, Store and Promotion; the LinkedIn integration is equally important for Community and Promotion.

What should be clear though is that this release is a complete breakthrough for Affino on as a Social Hub with it’s deep integration into the key social networks and all the enhancements we’ve wrapped around them.