Um, yeah. Technorati has been essentially an undead company for years. When your CTO resigns along with a good deal of the founding staff, that's never a good sign.<p>Offhand, barring lack of infrastructure (e.g. money) to support a public API, it's sheer insanity NOT to use a slow deprecation & migration strategy for versioning.<p>Offline for months and no updates--deadpool indeed.