Writely No More: Google Docs and Spreadsheets

I'm at Office 2.0, a conference here in San Francisco on the future of office productivity tools. The show is just starting, but news is already breaking: Google has merged its Writely word processor and Google Spreadsheets spreadsheet into a unified service called Google Docs and Spreadsheets. (The integration, so far, seems to be pretty simple--minor tweaks to menus for consistency, a single interface for pulling up documents, and one color scheme.)

I kind of miss the fun Writely name, look, and feel, and "Google Docs and Spreadsheets" is a pretty darn clunky name, but it was obvious from the get-go that these two services were meant to live as one. This first iteration isn't exactly the Microsoft Office-smashing Google Office that folks have talked about, but I'm already a fan of the service's two components, and it'll be interesting to see how it develops...