Player Bloat – v5.abacast.com – 4.7 MB

http://v5.player.abacast.com/v5.1/player/index.php?uid=6182

The Flash Player app by itself is 1 MB…. it loaded a 1.9 MB flash video file…  targetspot added in aother 1.5 MB of “stuff”.    The “background” image from the radio station is 175k…   I can’t tell you what it is – because it’s in the background….

Beyond Abacast and Targetspot, the server notified:

Facebook and jquery.com….   jquery.com is a harmless open source javascript library.

If uStream was the town whore, abacast is close to being a virgin 🙂

Here is some interesting background on Abacast and Targetspot

http://www.columbian.com/news/2011/may/07/abacast-sharpens-its-focus-local-developer-of-soft/

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