Isight used for other video chats

Is it possible for you to use your webcam for other video chatting sights ? I have been trying to video chat online with my friends in college in atl, but its not really recognizing my webcam. I have the Imac with the built in isight. Can anyone help me ?

Welcome to Apple Discussions, JusJay315
As Ralph has already posted, iChat is the clear winner for quality and features in Mac to Mac video chat, but there are LOTS of other choices. If you have iChat quesitons, Ralph and his comprehensive iChat FAQs site will help you with the answers.
Other video chat apps are shown in the "Chatting and Conferencing" section of Some Applications You Can Use With iSight
If you are trying to use your OS X Mac to video chat with a PC user who will use nothing but MSN Messenger or Microsoft Messenger, use aMSN or Mercury on your Mac to get video (but no audio) when you text chat with him.
Additionally , there are web based video sites such as Stickam (to use them, configure your "Flash" settings as described in http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4761707&#4761707 ), and video conferencing sites like MeBeam (see the "MeBeam ™ Blog" page for instructions.) There are many others.
EZ Jim
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Hi,
You can Add an Google Mail ID (@gmail.com or @googlemail.com) as your ID/screen Name in iChat.
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