Dropbox wants to stop thinking of content stored on the service as files, and instead think of it as types of content. In that spirit the company announced two new features for its website Wednesday: a new document preview for files, and a new look for albums of photos you have shared.
A new photo view will let you view all of the photos store on your Dropbox, organized chronologically by when they were taken. Timeline view is already available on Android.
Photos can be selected from that view, and shared as a virtual collection with a friend on Facebook, Twitter or email. On Facebook photos can be shared in a personal message or on a wall, and on Twitter photos will show up as a Twitter card. Pictures will always stay in the collection, regardless of whether you move them around within Dropbox -- a move that currently would break links.
Document previews will let Dropbox customers click on any file within Dropbox and get a quick, fast preview without having to download the file. So you can know quickly you're sending the right file to a coworker without having to download it first. The feature currently supports most common Office file types, with Excel support coming soon.
Both features will be rolling out to all Dropbox users over the coming months.