The cocktail question

When I’m with family and friends I have a hard time answering the most fundamental question, when they ask, “So, what is it that you do again?”

As I work as Mobile Subject Matter Expert it may be easy to explain the mobile part of my work but what about Subject Matter Expert, how should I explain that? I did as most of people would do, I searched for the word “expert” in Wikipedia and found that “an expert, more generally, is a person with extensive knowledge or ability in a particular area of study. Experts are called in for advice on their respective subject, but they do not always agree on the particulars of a field of study. An expert can be, by virtue of training, education, profession, publication or experience, believed to have special knowledge of a subject beyond that of the average person, sufficient that others may officially (and legally) rely upon the individual's opinion.” Now I don’t think this would help.

Instead I will in future quote Niels Bother’s the Danish physicist and Noble Prize winner, “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field”.

Survivor mentality

The power of positive thinking and the immigrant "survivor mentality" can change ones life. I think it can not be better described then Omid Kordestani speech addressed to San Jose State University graduated students of 2007.



Omid Kordestani was born in Iran and moved to San Jose, California at the age of 14 after the death of his father. Omid Kordestani is the senior vice president of global sales and business development at Google. He is directly responsible for Google's worldwide revenue generation efforts as well as the day-to-day operations of the company’s sales organization. As Google's "business founder," Omid led the development and implementation of the company's initial business model. Since joining in May of 1999, he has brought Google to profitability in record time, generating more than $10 billion in revenue in 2006.

"Work hard, Play hard"

When I heard the motto first time I didn't know what it meant. Since then I've come to realize that it's much more than just a saying. It's a way of life; it's a mentality; it's an obsession. To truly understand the seemingly ideal balance, you must live and observe it and I think nobody is doing it better then Sir Richard Branson. I have just finished reading one of his books "SCREW IT, LETS DO IT" and he really inspires people to make a difference in their life.

Mobile killer application 2008

I think we all agree that evolution of mobile killer applications started with SMS to mobile digital cameras such as SE CyberShot to music phones such as SE Walkman phones and this year it would be all about Location Based Services (LBS) and Navigation. Major acquisition in the SatNav landscape like TomTom intended to acquire TeleAtlas in what would be a $2.5 billion dollar transaction and Nokia intent to buy Navteq for $8.1 billion indicates how important its to control and manage the valuechine in Map/LBS/Navigation and offering the next mobile killer application .

Now Finally On the Air

I think its about time for me to get this blog up and running. My own website http://www.malekzadgan.com/ has been online for more the two years now, but lacking an easy to use Content Management System like the one in Blogger have preventing me from publishing information to the website. So now there are no excuses any more I will make sure that information about me will be published and updated frequently.