VentureBeat recently talked to Berners-Lee to learn more about his initial idea for the web, recent progress and vision for the future.“We did not actually get that [vision] because it took off as a publishing medium,” Berners-Lee said.While some of the collaborative capabilities worked in a tightly controlled environment like CERN, more work was required on single sign-on, authorization and fine-grained data-sharing to scale these ideas.His first read-write browser took a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) approach, whereas other HTML editors designed for publishing required a complex process of nesting labels more akin to programming than editing a collaborative document.VentureBeat's mission is to be a digital town square for technical decision-makers to gain knowledge about transformative enterprise technology and transact."