Cross AIM/Google Talk/.mac Chats?

With iChat, can someone with a Google Talk account chat to someone with a .mac account, and vice-versa? Or can you only chat to people using the same type of account as you?
For example, I have a Google Talk account. Can I add and chat with someone on AIM to my Buddy List?

The answer is really yes and no.
As a first option of Buddy List to Buddy List the answer is NO.
However the Jabber system that GoogleTalk uses can use what are called transports which allow the Jabber/Google Buddy list add names from other services.
In this way you could organise a AIM transport and then add @mac and AIM names to the Jabber Buddy list.
You would be able to Video chat to those Buddies that were on AIM or using a Google Screen name on iChat.
You can add MSN or Yahoo Buddies with a transport for those but you can not Video to them as the protocols used are different.
See the three links in this section
http://ralphjohns.co.uk/page5.html#_jabber
This is how to set up the Jabber side, how to make transport work and a list of server that have transports.
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