Good morning, it’s Wednesday, November 3, 2010, and this is your first early morning digital briefing.  If you would like to read this or any other Cynopsis edition online, click here. 

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday in a landmark case challenging California’s 2005 law banning the sale of “violent” video games to minors. The law, referred to as Schwarzenegger v. EMA, has yet to take effect, as rulings by lower federal courts have deemed it to be an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment. The court will eventually decide whether video games are protected forms of artistic expression or are graphic depictions of violence that should be regulated and prohibited for sale or rental to minors.
 

 
YouTube has partnered with CBS News to live-stream election results and trends starting tonight at 9 p.m. ET. The live video will be available at the CBS News YouTube channel supplemented by election trends, data from Google Trends and the search giant’s Insights for Search.
 
Amazon is expanding it’s Disc + On Demand program to offer the service to more than 10k DVD and Blu-ray titles. The company also completed an integration with Facebook to allow users to send gift cards through the social networking platform, beginning with an MP3 promo.
 
VOD network ExerciseTV viewers can now watch full workouts from Jane Fonda’s comeback exercise DVD, weeks before it is released on DVD. The segments are part of Jane’s “Walk Out” special, her first two routines released since the 80’s and hitting stores via DVD on Nov. 30.

 
New York-based Casual/social game start-up OMGPOP is closing in on another funding round to the tune of $10 million or so, per AllThingsD.  The company, which generates ad revenue by offering free-to-play casual games on Facebook and other platforms, has raised $6.5 million to date.
 
The Boxee folks have officially began accepting pre-orders of the broadband-connected Boxee Box, due for release in 15 countries on Nov. 10.
 

 
Young male themed ad network Complex Media Network announced that it has invited twenty-one new sites with a cumulative 76 million page views and 8 million uniques to join its network. New sites include men’s fashion site Porhomme, lifestyle magazine site Upscalehype and video -based lifestyle blog Maestroknows.
 
Reach Media Group is teaming with Harrah’s Entertainment to launch a new place-based Hospitality Entertainment Network. RMG’s sixth place-based video network will consist of 50,000 screens in Harrah’s Entertainment-owned hotels and casinos including Caesars Palace, Harrah’s, Horseshoe and Planet Hollywood resorts. 

 
Content Delivery Network Brightcove stepped to the plate with its 5th major overhaul yesterday, adding deeper analytics for HTML5 to support more Apple iOS streaming. The software features a new one-step “YouTube synch” to allow publishers to easily synch selected media to their YouTube channel. The suite also includes more than a dozen new analytics reports.
 
Yahoo is crossing the pond to expand the availability of Yahoo Connected TV apps on Samsung internet-connected TVs in Europe. Yahoo! Connected TV is currently in use in 135 countries with widgets available from more than 150 publishers.
 
Mobile solutions provider MIA International announced that it has added all of the mobile sites for Univision Communications Inc. live on its Publisher Platform, including Noticias (News), Entretenimiento (Entertainment) and Juegos (Games)
 

 
Americans are expected to move swiftly toward motion-control gaming – buying 2.5 million to 3 million Kinect sensors for their Microsoft Xbox 360 video game consoles during Q4 of 2010, according to new IDC projections. Microsoft is planning a massive half-a-billion dollar rebranding campaign to promote the product involving a Times Square event, a YouTube front page takeover and a deals with BK, Pepsi, Time, etc. Meanwhile, the number of Sony PlayStation 3 Move motion controllers should range between 2 million and 2.25 million by the end of this year.
 

 
Exacting consumers can now seek Hearst Magazine‘s Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval using the company’s new iPhone app, created with developer Zumobi. The app features cleaning tips, in-depth stain removal advice, decorating ideas and a complete directory of Good Housekeeping Seal products.
 

 
Bret Leece has been named SVP/Performance for the U.S. at Initiative. Bret will oversee the agency’s new performance analytics practice, based in the Los Angeles office.
 
Richard Bressler, currently a Director of Clear Channel Communications, Inc., Warner Music Group Corp. Gartner, Inc. and The Nielsen Co. has joined the board of AdGenesis. 
 

 
MSNBC.com, the self proclaimed place for politics, is rolling up its sleeves for a long night of midterm election coverage. The site will feature its first ever live video stream of NBC News coverage via Facebook and Twitter from 9 pm to 3 a.m ET., enabling users to embed live streams from Brian Williams and the crew on their accounts for the first time. (MSNBC.com’s handy Decision widget is also embeddable.) The idea is to make the experience more personal, with the ability to add comments, thoughts and opinions on the fly. Integrations such as the Facebook inauguration app have proved to be watershed moments in digital media – we’ll see how much enthusiasm it musters this time around. The network is anxious to see which streaming methods prove to be most popular. Mobile efforts include the option to share your pics and video, monitor candidate tweets, live chats or to become a piece of Twitter hashtag art at electionday.msnbc.com. Oh, and MSNBC has also confirmed that Keith Obermann is in fact turning the other cheek and putting an end to his “Worst Person in the World” segment, in an apparent effort to diminish divisiveness among cable’s talking heads.
 
Clarification: Evolve Media‘s new acquisition LiveOutdoors does not reach 1 million uniques/month, rather a collection of outdoor enthusiast sites combined with it does reach over 1 million unique visitors/month.
 
Later — Wayne
Wayne Karrfalt for Cynopsis Digital
wayne@cynopsis.com
11.03.10

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