Yahoo Mail, TV widgets, and Zimbra are the newly-incorporated apps into the Yahoo homepage, as a result of the expansion of the company's Open Strategy - a push that enables third-party apps into the company's e-mail service.

In fact, Yahoo on Friday added over a dozen widgets to its Webmail service, also integrating with PayPal, YouTube, eBay, and Mint.com. These apps are aimed at providing more services to users within Yahoo Mail, thereby eliminating the requirement of shuffling between Websites and services.

The new widgets that Yahoo has incorporated on Yahoo Mail include Zumo Drive; Picnik; Showtime; WordPress; and Food & Wine Pairing.

Talking about the inherent benefits of the assimilation of new widgets, Tapan Bhat, a Senior VP at Yahoo, said in a blog post: "We've spent a lot of time thinking about how we can ease the pain of site-hopping to help you do more things at once."

However, the new Yahoo Mail widgets give the app developer has the leeway to both access as well as store the content of your e-mail messages and any personal information you make available to the apps. 

Though the new Mail additions are presently in beta, users can still sign up by visiting the site my.yahoo.com; entering their Yahoo ID; and getting listed as interested users, with Yahoo to notify them when the tools are live!