My former colleague Jonathan Cottrel was featured today in an article about Blippr.com, a ratings site for music, movies, books and games. It promises “radically short ratings and reviews.”

The “ratings’ business is quite a busy area to compete in, with everything from tagging, social bookmarking and all manner of reviews –for books, teachers, technology, consumer products etc. For every Delicious, there is a Furl tempting you to save or share or vote on something. For every Digg, theres a Reddit. There is CiteULike for academic papers… the list goes on.

But Jonathan is a extremely smart guy, and I can’t wait to see the niche they will go after. It debuts on Facebook soon.