I agree with you that it's a misuse of the word, but for some reason a bunch of javascript developers have adopted it in the sense of having a webapp suite that

I agree with you that it's a misuse of the word, but for some reason a bunch of javascript developers have adopted it in the sense of having a webapp suite that spans both a node.js server-side environment and a browser client-side environment, and being able to migrate code between the two parts of the app. Go figure. http://www.oreilly.com/pub/e/3009 http://www.oreilly.com/pub/e/3009