Its examples are pulled from a set of 22 high-profile (and generally high-quality) sources including the New York Times, the Independent, Forbes, and ScienceDirect.

Learn about what I call "Web 2.01," a fusion of "Web 2.0" style application content with a "Rich Internet Application" client, which is not subject to many of the limitations of a Web browser.

There are other Web-app examples, but you get the idea. I am stoked about this trend, and think 2012 will be the year of the cloud for me.

A decentralized application, also known as a dApp, is a program built on top of a decentralized network using blockchain technology.