Histroy and background
Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship by Danah Boyd
Mobile Social Networks and Social Practice: A Case Study of Dodgeball by Lee Humpreys

Social Software
What makes a good social object? by Jyri Engeström
Why some social network services work and others don’t by Jyri Engeström
Situated Software by Clay Shirky
Polite, Pertinent, and… Pretty: Designing for the New-wave of Per… by Matt Jones
Can the iPhone hit crucial network density for noticable cluster ef… by danah boyd
3C products, The life of products, Experience hooks and Movement
by Matt Webb

Method
Design Research by Brenda Laurel (introductions to qualitative and quantitative methods)
The importance of fictional products by Allan Chochinov (article online)
Cultural probes and the value of uncertainty by Bill Gaver et al (pdf online)
Design for Hackability by Anne Galloway et al (pdf online)
Don’t design for ‘mobile’ – design for mobility by Adaptive Path (weblog post)

Tools for web
GreaseMonkey – is a Mozilla Firefox extension that allows users to install scripts that make on-the-fly changes to most HTML-based web pages.
W3C HTML + CSS Tutorial
OmniGraffle and GraffleTopia – Interface mock-up tools
Yahoo Pipes, tutorial – Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.
Zembly – With you can create and publish Facebook apps, Meebo apps, OpenSocial apps, iPhone apps, Google Gadgets, embeddable widgets, and other social applications. You need to know a bit of javascripting and html to use this. You should be able to get an invite by signing up to the site, if not let me know and I’ll send you my login.

Tools for mobile
iUI – Create Navigational Menus and iPhone interfaces from standard HTML
GreasePocket – GreasePocket is an attempt to bring the features of GreaseMonkey to the iPhone.
Mobile Processing – Mobile Processing is an open source programming environment for people who want to design and prototype software for mobile phones.
Jiggy – Simply put, Jiggy is the easiest way to create applications for the iPhone (or iPod Touch)

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Additional Books (as recommended by Johan H Hallesby)

Kim Goodwin & Alan Cooper -Designing for the Digital Age: How to Create Human-centered Products and Services

Charlene Li & Josh Bernoff - Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies