Tomorrow is the Internet Radio Day of Silence. As a result of rate hikes on the royalties that online radio has to pay, soon many of the internet radio stations that you have come to enjoy might have to close their proverbial doors. Many of the largest radio providers, including Yahoo! and Pandora will be participating.

In order to support these content providers, I am joining the following meme, started by my friends over at Grooveshark.

Copy the image above, link it to: http://www.savenetradio.org

Make a blog post about it with the title: “Rally To Save Internet Radio” (or similar)

Digg/Reddit that post, with the same title and then use my handy contact form to let me know about.

A clip from Spring’s GUT Conference.

The next Gainesville Tech Conference is tentatively scheduled for July 11th at GTEC. Mark your calenders. More details about the conference will come as they become available.

Brian Dean of Eventful, talks about Gainesville Mashup PodBop on a recent episode of the IT Conversations Podcast.

Good work guys!

Grooveshark is signing a major deal with UK based V2 music group. Take a look!

“The Grooveshark business model is a very exciting and V2 are very pleased to be delivering our content on this platform as early as the beta stages,” said Beth Appleton, head of Business Development at V2. “Peer to peer networks have phenomenal distribution and with that the commercial possibilities for distributing content could be revolutionary, with the right model. We hope that together with licensed content and an accurate pricing model, the super-distribution possibilities of peer to peer via this partnership could be a significant future revenue stream for V2 and our artists.”

Everyone’s favorite VC Dan Rua has written an article about this quarter’s GUT in Florida Venture Blog. I suggest you give it a look!

Some good news from the Orangeply camp. We have recently been accepted as a part of the GatorNest program for summer A. That means folks, we’re getting some interns. I’d like to thank Ted Astleford for going to bat for us. It’s bound to be an interesting experience for everyone concerned.

Florida Free Culture is hosting their last copynight of the semester, try to show up if you have the time.

Please try to come out to our very last CopyNight Gainesville for the semester!

* What: CopyNight Gainesville: “Encouraging Creativity: Are We?”
* When: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 7 pm
* Where: Tim and Terry’s (1417 NW 1st Ave.)

Hey folks, I see having GUTs as more of a community than just merely a conference. Thus, we plan to highlight companies in the area that are really showing what Gainesville can do. In this case, Grooveshark has managed to make it into Zeropaid. Take a look at their article there and send them some Digg love.