In the past, I gave few presentations on ‘Modern web apps‘ and each time I tried to show compelling examples.
Here is a new source (mobile web apps ftw) that might help you see what can be done (today) on the mobile web.
Few good examples to checkout:
- Weather App
- Lanyrd (For your next conferences).
- Stanford
- Financial Times
- Alerts in Israel (hebrew)
- Time Tracker (hebrew)
- GitHub
- Gmail
Another good site to get insperation is: mobile-patterns.com
If you have other great suggestions – please use the comments and I’ll add them.
Ido Green 
The Financial Times app is a good one, and plenty of info on implementation too (http://labs.ft.com/articles/)
Yep – It’s a great example that I’ve been using in the past year.
Thank you.
Very helpful article and definitely one worth sharing and bookmarking for later reference.
I am a big fan of webapps over desktop apps. Here is another good one:
https://www.roboshout.com
Hopefully more sites start looking like this. As of 2018 I read that the web is still accessed by more desktops. But I think mobile is very close