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InterActiveCorp’s Evite might still be the biggest name in online invitations, but Martha Stewart has made her endorsement elsewhere.

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia has partnered with and made an undisclosed investment in Pingg, a much smaller competitor.

The chief executive of New York-based Pingg, Lorien Gabel, spoke to CNET News a few months ago to make the case for his company as a more refined alternative to the clip art-friendly Evite, saying he hoped Pingg would be appropriate for “a whole segment of event types that people just (do) not want to use electronic invitations for,” like graduation parties and bar mitzvahs.

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia said in a release that its investment in Pingg was designed to improve its digital presence. Through the partnership, Pingg will be promoted and have its tools worked into the Martha Stewart Web site; Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia will sell ads on Pingg, and some of its content will appear on the invitation start-up’s site. Joseph Holland, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia’s vice president of strategy and development, will join Pingg’s board of directors.

This certainly gives Pingg an advantage, as it has plenty of other competitors attempting to eat into Evite’s market share: MyPunchbowl, Socializr, and Renkoo are just a few of them.

Our request for a catfight between Stewart and IAC czar Barry Diller went unanswered.

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The finalists have been chosen for the Best of Tech•Ed 2008 Developer Awards presented by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro® and SQL Server Magazine®.

One name that made list that we are all familiar with is Telerik’s Sitefinity CMS. It was named as one of four finalist for the Developer Tools category.

Telerik is a provider of developer tools and components for .Net. Their Sitefinity CMS product has been designed for the both the developer and the end user. According to Telerik CEO Vassil Terziew, they have worked hard to provide a product that includes a comprehensive development platform for developers, but is still easy to use.

Their hard work seems to have paid off. Still, they are up against some pretty stiff competition including the popular NetAdvantage Suite from .Net Infragistics, Intercept Studio’s AVIcode and JNBridgePro’s JNBridge.

Have a look at who else made the list from the 65 products and services submitted for the contest and stay tuned on June 6 for the big announcement of the winners.

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