Changes to Google Friend Connect

Do you follow blogs using Google Friend Connect? If you do then you should be aware of the following info from Google. 

Google is making some changes that will eventually require readers to have a Google Account to sign into Friend Connect to follow blogs. 

As part of this plan, starting the week of January 11, they'll remove the ability for people with Twitter, Yahoo, Orkut or other OpenId providers to sign in to Google Friend Connect and follow blogs. (At the same time, they'll remove non-Google Account profiles so you may see a decrease in your blog follower count, if you have a blog of your own.)  

So, if you use a non-Google account to follow my blog, you’ll need to sign up for a Google account (or sign into your Google account), and re-follow my blog.

Here are the details from Google: http://buzz.blogger.com/2015/12/an-update-on-google-friend-connect.html