While the Internet can build popularity quickly, it can also accelerate a backlash.
The standoff amounts to a role reversal: when Mr. Netanyahu was Prime Minister in the late 1990's, Mr. Sharon, also seeking to build popularity, staked out a position to the right of him.
If you look at the history of the internet, so far a number of people have been able to build popularity and a following, but nobody's yet been able to build a very valuable video business," Kilar told the Guardian.
To build popularity, Sharecare is reaching out to a few investors Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions and Sony Pictures Television, which works with regional TV affiliates that carry the Dr. Oz Show.
As an open source project, its first goal is to build popularity with the developer community, then much like OpenStack or any open source project, it hopes that customers who don't want to deal with open source code will come to them for help.
This isn't the first app to offer this feature — the YouTube Mobile app and Sony's Screen Recorder are among those that also do the job — but Kamcord is notable because it is solely focused on mobile, which is helping it build popularity among broadcasters and games fans.
Galoob failed to build popularity for its toys outside the United States, and discontinued the line in 1997.
Demi is the most curious case, though; her relationship to scandal, as it has played out in the press, is an extraordinary case study in public relations legerdemain -- in how to maintain, and even build, popularity instead of notoriety.
On the way up, he built his popularity in Providence, R.I., not far from his Brockton roots.
Mr. Stewart, after all, built his popularity and stature by wittily skewering politicians and journalists of all stripes, without fear, favor or deference.
