Virtual Pop Stars
from the who-needs-real-people dept
An article in the Industry Standard talks about the animated virtual pop band, Gorillaz who are promoting themselves through the web. EMI is promoting them quite a bit, now that they've come to the US from Europe. Of course, I just went to check out their web site, and I got all sorts of user authentication errors, and asking me for passwords from their staging site. For a virtual band, it sounds like they need to practice up a bit on their web skills.
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