diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 4f2c736a1a6ad3f2fe9ffc00dd44f13c1117a2b3..e65b8d3571251de521114734c7fb90e34986f86d 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ gem "haml"
 gem 'roxml', :git => "git://github.com/Empact/roxml.git"
 
 gem 'gpgme'
-
+gem 'pubsubhubbub'
 #mai crazy async stuff
 #gem 'em-synchrony',   :git => 'git://github.com/igrigorik/em-synchrony.git',    :require => 'em-synchrony/em-http'
 gem 'em-http-request',:git => 'git://github.com/igrigorik/em-http-request.git', :require => 'em-http'
diff --git a/app/controllers/dashboards_controller.rb b/app/controllers/dashboards_controller.rb
index 11dbd939ac363d0899f578628c419be12fc43662..654f9af6f41ba8df17c438a9de94562322f216de 100644
--- a/app/controllers/dashboards_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/dashboards_controller.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 class DashboardsController < ApplicationController
   
-  before_filter :authenticate_user!, :except => :receive
+  before_filter :authenticate_user!, :except => [:receive, :hub]
   include ApplicationHelper
+  include DashboardsHelper
 
   def index
     @posts = Post.paginate :page => params[:page], :order => 'created_at DESC'
@@ -15,6 +16,17 @@ class DashboardsController < ApplicationController
     render :nothing => true
   end
   
+  def hub
+    if params[:mode] == "subscribe"
+      response.status = subscribe(params)
+    end
+
+    render :nothing => true
+  end
+  
+  
+  
+  
   def warzombie
     render :nothing => true
     if User.owner.email == "tom@joindiaspora.com" && StatusMessage.where(:message => "There's a bomb in the lasagna!?").first == nil
diff --git a/app/helpers/dashboards_helper.rb b/app/helpers/dashboards_helper.rb
index 8673a62e8fbaeeb215a44392602953a83b8ed5b6..dc181652a18882d6ab2b583ea97d0a449d2e70ef 100644
--- a/app/helpers/dashboards_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/dashboards_helper.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,19 @@
 module DashboardsHelper
 
+    def subscribe(opts = {})
+      subscriber = Subscriber.first(:url => opts[:callback], :topic => opts[:topic])
+      subscriber ||= Subscriber.new(:url => opts[:callback], :topic => opts[:topic])
 
+      if subscriber.save
+
+        if opts[:verify] == 'sync'
+          204
+        elsif opts[:verify] == 'async'
+          202
+        end
+      else 
+        400
+      end
+    end
 
 end
diff --git a/app/models/subscriber.rb b/app/models/subscriber.rb
index b80559f228742deddf1b48b09e2122c93422d72d..19d234d2466f77c19948fe27fac421a72c96545f 100644
--- a/app/models/subscriber.rb
+++ b/app/models/subscriber.rb
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ class Subscriber
   include MongoMapper::Document
 
   key :url
+  key :topic
 
-  validates_presence_of :url
+  validates_presence_of :url, :topic
 
 end
diff --git a/config/routes.rb b/config/routes.rb
index 08b1f6f556a3d724d24189ad0b33a9f24c0f11d1..64cea07b0c7ea4737bbe03663a540c3ddc815ad7 100644
--- a/config/routes.rb
+++ b/config/routes.rb
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Diaspora::Application.routes.draw do |map|
 
   resources :users
   match 'receive', :to => 'dashboards#receive'
-
+  match 'hub', :to => 'dashboards#hub'
   root :to => 'dashboards#index'
 
 end
diff --git a/lib/common.rb b/lib/common.rb
index 7e053a4fcd9d02c5f19f1f7f01aef2ec704f4481..05acb4fbef18c601d1c579c89f8c8ed2a6b259ff 100644
--- a/lib/common.rb
+++ b/lib/common.rb
@@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ module Diaspora
             recipients.map!{|x| x = x.url + "receive/"}  
             xml = self.class.build_xml_for([self])
             @@queue.add_post_request( recipients, xml )
+
+            @@queue.add_hub_notification('http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/publish/', User.owner.url + self.class.to_s.pluralize.underscore )
+            
             @@queue.process
           end
         end
@@ -128,8 +131,9 @@ module Diaspora
       end
 
       def self.endpoints
-        #generate pubsub, poco, salmon endpoints
-        ""
+          <<-XML
+ <link href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" rel="hub"/>
+          XML
       end
       
       def self.subject
diff --git a/lib/message_handler.rb b/lib/message_handler.rb
index 66bc0688ae1edf3565560e0767b0242eb756f88d..95c6eb650815e326e781b522ccf62c552a203102 100644
--- a/lib/message_handler.rb
+++ b/lib/message_handler.rb
@@ -17,20 +17,28 @@ class MessageHandler
     destinations.each{|dest| @queue.push(Message.new(:post, dest, b))}
   end
 
+  def add_hub_notification(destination, feed_location)
+    @queue.push(Message.new(:pubhub, destination, feed_location))
+  end
+
   def process
     @queue.pop{ |query|
       case query.type
       when :post
-        http = EventMachine::HttpRequest.new(query.destination).post :timeout => TIMEOUT, :body =>{:xml =>  query.body}
-        http.callback {process}
+        http = EventMachine::HttpRequest.new(query.destination).post :timeout => TIMEOUT, :body =>{:xml => query.body}
+        http.callback { puts  query.destination; process; process}
       when :get
         http = EventMachine::HttpRequest.new(query.destination).get :timeout => TIMEOUT
         http.callback {send_to_seed(query, http.response); process}
+      when :pubhub
+        http = EventMachine::PubSubHubbub.new(query.destination).publish query.body, :timeout => TIMEOUT 
+        http.callback { puts  "boner city" + http.response ; process}
       else
         raise "message is not a type I know!"
       end
 
       http.errback {
+        puts http.response
         puts "failure from #{query.destination}, retrying"
         query.try_count +=1
         @queue.push query unless query.try_count >= NUM_TRIES 
diff --git a/spec/controllers/dashboards_controller_spec.rb b/spec/controllers/dashboards_controller_spec.rb
index 6b48d9a638d81a6aeba20c5b89d93ac1e9cc55a2..053dbdda027314661f6baa37800d1ed9e4d5ae9f 100644
--- a/spec/controllers/dashboards_controller_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/controllers/dashboards_controller_spec.rb
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ describe DashboardsController do
  render_views
   
   before do
-    request.env['warden'] = mock_model(Warden, :authenticate? => @user, :authenticate! => @user)
     @user = Factory.create(:user, :profile => Profile.create( :first_name => "bob", :last_name => "smith"))
+    request.env['warden'] = mock_model(Warden, :authenticate? => @user, :authenticate! => @user, :authenticate => @user)
   end
 
   it "on index sets a variable containing all a user's friends when a user is signed in" do
@@ -15,4 +15,45 @@ describe DashboardsController do
     assigns[:friends].should == Person.friends.all
   end
 
+  describe 'PubSubHubBuB intergration' do 
+
+    describe 'incoming subscriptions' do
+      it 'should register a friend' do
+        Subscriber.all.count.should == 0 
+       
+        post :hub,  {:callback => "http://example.com/", 
+                            :mode => 'subscribe', 
+                            :topic => '/status_messages',
+                            :verify => 'async'}
+        response.status.should == 202
+        
+        Subscriber.all.count.should == 1
+      end
+
+      it 'should keep track of what topic a subscriber wants' do 
+        post :hub,  {:callback => "http://example.com/", 
+                            :mode => 'subscribe', 
+                            :topic => '/status_messages',
+                            :verify => 'async'}
+        Subscriber.first.topic.should == '/status_messages' 
+      end
+    end
+    
+    it 'should return a 204 for a sync request' do
+        post :hub,  {:callback => "http://example.com/", 
+                            :mode => 'subscribe', 
+                            :topic => '/status_messages',
+                            :verify => 'sync'}
+        response.status.should == 204
+    end
+    
+    it 'should confirm subscription of a sync request' do
+      post :hub,  {:callback => "http://example.com/", 
+                   :mode => 'subscribe', 
+                   :topic => '/status_messages',
+                   :verify => 'sync'}
+     
+    end
+
+  end
 end
diff --git a/spec/models/subscriber_spec.rb b/spec/models/subscriber_spec.rb
index 7b91b88744ddc402f4e37b9ec6a751bc1319d926..4cfad9bbe53a2560c88efe10b9b928573766f136 100644
--- a/spec/models/subscriber_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/models/subscriber_spec.rb
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ describe Subscriber do
     n = Subscriber.new
     n.valid?.should be false
     
+    n.topic = '/status_messages'
+    n.valid?.should be false
+
     n.url = "http://clown.com/"
 
     n.valid?.should be true