Tencent SNS: QQ Alumni begins internal testing

Tencent always likes to wait until a network service has been tested by other new companies before leveraging its late-mover advantage to enter the market. Just as Xiaonei.com begins to significantly convert its web traffic into cash flow by launching its own membership value-added "Purple Bean" service, which mimics QQ's Red Diamond, Tencent's own version of Xiaonei -- QQ Xiaoyou (http://xiaoyou.qq.com/) -- has also begun a mysterious internal test.