Record and share your or a child’s Christmas list with this fun and easy to use application for the iPhone and iPod touch.

Touch Santa’s bag and tell Santa what you want for Christmas.

After recording the christmas list, you can listen to the recording, record a new list, or email the recording to others.

Tell Santa is perfect for pre-readers, Santa says all instructions over the speaker and the on-screen buttons are big and easy to use.  Tell Santa uses the speakerphone, anyone can hold the phone and join in.

While Tell Santa is running, Santa says, “Ho Ho Ho” and snow falls.

Don’t be naughty and shake the phone or Santa may fall down the chimney!

It may appear as though things have been slow around RF land of late, specially given the dearth of recent posts here. Behind the scenes, though, lots has been happening.

Today, we announce a whopper: RF.com has expanded throughout the globe and is now available in 35 different countries.

Here’s the list of nations where you can make an RF call (through Skype, GoogleTalk, Yahoo, your own VoIP provider, an Asterisk PBX, your office phone system, etc.) over the national mobile network:

Argentina
Austria
Bahrain
Belgium
Brazil
Bulgaria
Canada
Chile
Croatia
Cyprus
Denmark
El Salvador
Estonia
France
Germany
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Latvia
Lithuania
Malta
Mexico
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Pakistan
Peru
Poland
Romania
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
United Kingdom
United States

Stay tuned as we’ll be adding other countries soon . . . and another major new feature announcement is on tap.

PHOENIX, AZ – Skype has announced the beta release of Skype for Asterisk, a commercial application that will allow seamless access between the 378-million user Skype network and the tens of millions of users of the popular open source Asterisk PBX system.

The development, the first that easily and seamlessly interconnects Skype’s proprietary infrastructure with the open source telephony community, has far-reaching implications for the future of IP telephony.

The announcement — made jointly by Stefan Öberg, Skype’s vice president of telecommunications, and Mark Spencer, the principal author of Asterisk and currently CTO of Digium, Inc., Asterisk’s parent company, was made at the Astricon 2008 Open Source Telephony Conference here.

Öberg demonstrated the beta product on stage by making a Skype-to-Asterisk call to Spencer’s personal Asterisk server. According to Öberg, Asterisk-to-Skype calls originating from an Asterisk-attached handset are also possible.

The significance of this development for users of RF.com is potentially very significant as it allows for greatly simplified exandability and the use of Skype’s popular fixed-line calling service, Skype Out on RF.com.

Currently, we run a dedicated Skype client for every concurrent RF.com conversation over Skype. This means that we have to run dedicated banks of Skype servers in order to meet calling demand. Skype for Asterisk eliminates that need by allowing Skype cal termination without the need for a dedicated client.

Skype for Asterisk is currently available in an invitation-only beta program. No general release date nor pricing for the commercial application has been set.

We’ve been threatening this for a while and we finally did it. Today, RF.com took it’s first big step towards internationalization.

OK. Perhaps not that big a step, just a little one across the northern border. But for all intents and purposes, RF.com’s presence in Canada makes it a lot easier for us to launch throughout the rest of the iPhone world in short order.

Being in Canada means that we now offer a local calling POP to those who sign up with RF.com in Canada. The service offered in Canada is exactly the same as what we’ve been dishing up in the US for past few months: Free Skype, GoogleTalk, Yahoo, MSN, SIP URI calling; free use of your own VoIP provider to make calls; free full integration with Asterisk and other IP-capable PBXes.

Soon (and by that we mean this month), we’ll begin offering RF.com in Europe and elsewhere (our closed tests in Europe are going splendidly).

Big things are coming . . .

Marcelo and I had a quick interview with Dean Takahashi at a Starbucks during Apple’s WWDC.

The life of a startup founder is never dull.  It’s motivating when others notice your work.  Thank you VentureBeat.