Here are my top three stories from the web this last week:

Use Your iPhone Like a Credit Card
In this article from walletpop.com is news that Visa and DeviceFidelity have teamed up to produce a case for an iPhone that also acts as a credit card. This looks like a very exciting development not only for the iPhone but also in terms of payment technology. Full details are available via the title link but in a nutshell you open an app, click pay and wave your phone near the terminal. If this sort of technology takes off, and I think over time that it will then it will be one less item for you to need to carry around in your pocket. It seems to me that as each month comes round we see a greater convergence of technology that make our smart phones more and more indispensible.

Is This The Coolest Place For An IT Person To Work?
This article comes from pigdom.com and gives us a sneak peek inside a new data centre in Sweden. It really is like something out of a James Bond movie. The building itself was originally a nuclear shelter and among the many things that it contains are a pair of German submarine engines to act as a back up power supply. It can allegedly survive a near hit by an atomic bomb, I question how they are able to quantify this. During the height of the Cold War in the 1980’s you would often see adverts for “Nuclear Shelters” in Sunday newspaper colour supplements, these always claimed to be 100% guaranteed to work though I often wondered who you would complain to if, after a nuclear attack, you discovered that your shelter was as much use as jokebook at a funeral. I digress, going back to this data centre I am sure that there are many Swedes who will rest more easily knowing that in the event of a nuclear attack they will still be able to Tweet about it.

Facebook Issues New Privacy Policy
This is an article taken from BBC News concerning the new simplified privacy policy from Facebook. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says that the new policy is to help simplify things for Facebook users. Many Facebook users do not seem to be too bothered about how their data is processed but there is a growing minority who do object to their personal data being used in personalised ads without either their knowldege or consent. It will be interesting to see what happens next Monday 31st May 2010 that has been dubbed Quit Facebook Day when people are being asked to delete their Facebook profiles as a mark of protest to what the founders of the site see as Facebooks over complication of privacy settings. While writing this I checked the page and found that 23, 003 people had taken the pledge. This is dwarfed by the estimated 400 million active users that Facebook has.

I will be giving another round up of my Best of the Web next Thursday. If you want to keep up to date with other Internet news why not follow me on Twitter for “three from me” every day.