Today, TechCrunch reported about Yahoo shutting down the widely used bookmark  service del.icio.us.Right after this, a statement from Yahoo showed a possible alternate future of the service.

Many of you have read the news stories about Delicious that began appearing yesterday. We’re genuinely sorry to have these stories appear with so little context for our loyal users. While we can’t answer each of your questions individually, we wanted to address what we can at this stage and we promise to keep you posted as future plans get finalized.

However, who still wants to quick backup his/her boomarks could use curl following the tips from Martin Koser:

curl --user username:password -o DeliciousBookmarks.xml -O "http://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all"