Yahoo announced in December that it would make it technologies more open to external developers and integrate social networking features into the site. The new apps added Friday are part of that initiative.
The Food & Wine Pairing app from Snooth, for example, provides recipes, menus, wine reviews, and recommended pairings, while a Green Lifestyle app from Mokugift gives tips to help you become more environmentally conscious. A Mint.com app helps users manages their finances, set budgets, and find money-saving tips.
Yahoo also added an app from WordPress, which lets users post to and update their blogs without leaving the Yahoo network.
To add, click on the "add content" on my.yahoo.com and select your app of choice. A total of 18 apps are currently available.
On the e-mail front, Yahoo Mail users will soon be able to access PayPal, Picnik photo editing, and Zumo Web storage directly from the inbox. Request or send money via PayPal, edit photos and share photo collages with Picnik, and e-mail files as large as 100MB for free with Zumo.
The Mail additions are currently in beta and not widely available. To sign up, visit this Web site and enter your Yahoo ID. Yahoo will add you to a list of interested users and notify you when the tools are live.
In August 2008, Intel and Yahoo made a surprise announcement to co-develop the Yahoo Widget Channel, a technology that will allow TVs to connect to the Internet to access "widgets," bits of software that would add value to the TV software experience.
For those with widget-enabled TVs, Yahoo has added widgets for YouTube and cable channel Showtime, both of which provide access to videos from the sites. An eBay widget is also coming soon.
Finally, Yahoo has added content to Zimbra, its open-source e-mail and collaboration software. The upgrades will let users automatically save emails as documents, drop sticky notes on messages, and handle expense reports with one click.
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