Question

Podcasting __________   part of the general lexicon almost overnight. The technology behind podcasting comes from RSS news feeds, which were developed by programmer and blogging pioneer Dave Winer. Former MTV VJ Adam Curry had been pushing for a new way to do RSS with multimedia , and _________         encourage Winer to develop RSS with enclosures.
That technology  ___________  people to publish RSS feeds with audio or video, but it took a few years before regular podcasts were launched. In the summer of 2004, Winer _________  a proto-podcast called Morning Coffee Notes and Curry started his Daily Source Code show. Curry ___________  to start coding his own podcast software called iPodder, and was hoping to get other programmers to join in on the open source software project. Eventually, iPodder _________        the basis for other "podcatching" software programs, which help you manage and subscribe to podcasts. In 2005, when Apple's iTunes _________  podcatching software as well as a podcast directory, the medium __________  . (...)

Answer 1

Na ordem dos espaços em branco, as respostas são:
1 - became
2 - helped
3 - allowed
4 - started
5 - decided
6 - became
7 - included
8 - exploded

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