Some of the top cities in the world have opened government data to better serve their citizens and cities. Not only should the City of Austin get on board, but they should lead in the movement towards Semantic Web standards.

Normally, my goal with this space is to write about Austin-area companies that are intriguing, but maybe not “on the radar” yet. But, I’m cheating a bit this time, by writing about Conformity. I met Scott Bils, its founding CEO, more than three years ago when we were both laboring away at ventures – me in services, he in software – that were focused on helping companies in the post-Sarbanes Oxley regulatory world. Scott’s firm [...]