This document summarizes a presentation about transforming the web together through open data and standards. It discusses the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and its role in developing open web standards. It provides examples of linked open data projects including data.gov and mashups of government data. Specific open data portals for cities like Chicago are highlighted. Semantic web technologies like RDF, RDFa, and SPARQL are referenced as working groups at W3C. Links are included to further resources on linked open data basics and news portals. The presentation concludes with mentioning Peter Mika from Yahoo discussing open data.