Three things are required to build third wave interaction: a technology that makes connecting easy, an interaction that users want to engage with and data that enables personalized and quick exchanges.

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"If you look at the first wave of the Internet as being about content, and the second generation being the interaction of people-to-people connections ... just now we're getting to the point where there's scale, " Sze says.

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